Zdenek
given name · Latin script
Meaning: männl. Vom. tschechischer Her kunft, der möglicherweise au f Sidonius (
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Zdenek is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 981K(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 58K
- SESweden1 in 200K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 144 (measured from records)
- 1 in 58K (inferred from the name graph)
339 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
männl. Vom. tschechischer Her kunft, der möglicherweise au f Sidonius (
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zdenek counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
339 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Zdenek is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Common Czech name, in origin a diminutive derived from a much contracted form of Latin Sid nius (see SIDONY ). Feminine forms: Zde ka, Zdenka, Zdena. Pet forms: Zdenko, Zden ek, Zdení( e)k, Zdenou ek m; Zdeni ka, Zdenu ka, Zdenin(k)a f .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Zdeněk Fibichb. 1850CZCzech conductor, music educator, composer and choirmaster (1850-1900)
- Zdeněk Nejedlýb. 1878CZCzech musicologist, writer and politician (1878–1962)
- Zdeněk Koubekb. 1913CZtransgender Czech athlete (1913-1986)
- Zdenek Milerb. 1921CZCzech animator and illustrator (1921–2011)
- Zdeněk Mahlerb. 1928CZCzech musicologist, scriptwriter and writer (1928-2018)
- Zdeněk Svěrákb. 1936CZCzech actor
- Zdeněk Zemanb. 1947CZCzech soccer coach (born 1947)
- Zdeněk Nehodab. 1952CZCzech footballer
- Zdeněk Grygerab. 1980CZCzech footballer
- Zdeněk Hřibb. 1981CZCzech manager and politician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 37 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 338 | #27,122 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2008 | 53 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 52 | #12,583 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 51 | #13,462 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2009 | 51 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 50 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 50 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | 50 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 50 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 49 | #28,272 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 49 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 48 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Zdenek mean?
- Recorded meaning: männl. Vom. tschechischer Her kunft, der möglicherweise au f Sidonius (
- Is Zdenek a male or female name?
- Zdenek is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Zdenek have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 339 people named Zdenek, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zdenek.
- Where is Zdenek most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zdenek is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 58 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Zdenek?
- In the United States, the national register counted 339 people named Zdenek in 2020, about 1 in 981 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zdenekThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Zdenek”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.