Zelek

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Symbolizes the inclusion of Gentiles in the service of the Davidic kingdom

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Zelek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 11K(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 235K
  • NONorway1 in 304K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Poland (measured from records)

3,421 people, 2026

Sources
72 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Symbolizes the inclusion of Gentiles in the service of the Davidic kingdom.

Sources 1

  • Biblical Names Compiled Database

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Zelek 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.

Where Zelek is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland3,4211 in 11K1.7KZelek72
US United States4621 in 720K462Zelek34
FR France≈120 est.≈1 in 582K15—1
IT Italy≈94 est.≈1 in 661K—Zelek1
GB United Kingdom≈93 est.≈1 in 710K—Zelek19
DK Denmark251 in 235K25——
NO Norway181 in 304K18—2
HR Croatia121 in 352K12——

3,421 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Zelek is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Żelek

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States

    Also written Zélek, Żelek

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Żelek

  • Amharic surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ethiopia, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written ዘለቀ, Zalaka, Zalaqa

  • Croatian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia

    Also written Żelek

  • Czech surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Żelek

33 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Zelek 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.

  • Fissure or cleft

    as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database

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)

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 23 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Zelek
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20261.7K—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—1.7K#1,598
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20261.7K—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—1.7K#1,667
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010462#46,138
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020455#49,823
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000441#45,651
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195128—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—25#19,511
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198123—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197120—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—18#44,649

Reference works 5

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 Zelek mean, and where does it come from?
Symbolizes the inclusion of Gentiles in the service of the Davidic kingdom. Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
In which country does Zelek have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 3.4 thousand people named Zelek, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zelek.
Where is Zelek most common?
Zelek is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 11 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Zelek?
In Poland, the national register counted 3,421 people named Zelek in 2026, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.

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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, “Zelek”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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