Čelko
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/t͡ʃˈelko/(machine-generated) Slovak · model-generated
Čelko is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovakia than in any other country.
- SKSlovakia≈1 in 17Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- CZCzechia1 in 170K
- HRCroatia1 in 223K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Slovakia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 20 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈320 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovakia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Celko in GB United Kingdom.
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 the surname Čelko is found
(measured from records)Čelko 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SK Slovakia | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Čelko | 20 |
| CZ Czechia | 63 | 1 in 170K | 63 | Čelko | 12 |
| HR Croatia | 19 | 1 in 223K | 19 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 4 | 1 in 9.6M | 2 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | Celko | 5 |
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: MVČR — living population register 2017; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Ignác Čelkob. 1814SKSlovak scientist
- Vojtech Čelkob. 1946SKSlovak historian
- Ladislav Čelkob. 1980CZresearcher
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)Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Čelko?
- It depends on the language: in Slovak /t͡ʃˈelko/; in Czech /ˈt͡ʃɛlko/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Čelko?
- Mondonomo estimates about 318 people named Čelko in Slovakia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled čelko. After it come Czechia, Croatia and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Čelko?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 63 people named Čelko, about 1 in 170 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Čelko?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C4%8DelkoThe 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, “Čelko”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.