Zubek

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/zubɛk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 21K(measured from records)
  • SKSlovakia1 in 22K
  • CZCzechia1 in 66K

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.

Poland (measured from records)

1,835 people, 2026

Sources
51 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Zubek 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 Zubek is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland1,8351 in 21K921Zubek45
US United States3961 in 840K414Zubek51
BR Brazil3101 in 683K310——
SK Slovakia2441 in 22K244Zubek17
CZ Czechia1611 in 66K162Zubek33
HR Croatia261 in 163K26——

1,835 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); 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)

Zubek is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Croatian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States

    Also written Zůbek

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Zůbek, Zúbek

  • Ukrainian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian

    Also written Зубек

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Zůbek

27 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19001920194019601980Józef Zubek, b. 1914Leopold Zubek, b. 1940Heinz Zubek, b. 1950Mark Zubek, b. 1974

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Zubek,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 23 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Zubek
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026921—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—921#3,330
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026914—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—914#3,443
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020414#53,865
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010396#52,383
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000351#54,880
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—310#25,676
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—162#6,174
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—161#10,519
SK SlovakiaJÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census)1995101—
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202126#19,841

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

How do you pronounce Zubek?
A machine transcription gives /zubɛk/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Zubek have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Zubek, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zubek.
Where is Zubek most common?
Zubek is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 21 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Zubek?
In Poland, the national register counted 1,835 people named Zubek in 2026, about 1 in 21 thousand residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zubek

The 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, “Zubek”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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