Čepek
surname · Latin script
Meaning: genitive plural of čepka
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021
/ʃepek/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Čepek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 36K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 39K
- PLPoland1 in 260K
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.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 15 (measured from records)
- 1 in 36K (inferred from the name graph)
295 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Cepek in US United States.
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)genitive plural of čepka
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Čepek 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | 295 | 1 in 36K | 299 | — | — |
| US United States | 235 | 1 in 1.4M | 235 | Cepek | 3 |
| PL Poland | 147 | 1 in 260K | 76 | — | — |
| HR Croatia | 109 | 1 in 39K | 109 | Čepek | 15 |
| SK Slovakia | 6 | 1 in 907K | 6 | — | — |
295 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); MVČR — living population register 2017; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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)- Ladislav Čepekb. 1868Czech engine driver and cooperative bank treasurer (1868-??)
- Pavel Čepekb. 1934DECzech and German micropalaeontologist and palaeobotanist
- Milan Čepekb. 1936CZCzech sculptor and ceramicist (1936-1979)
- Petr Čepekb. 1940CZCzech actor (1940–1994)
- Aleš Čepekb. 1954CZCzech cartographer and programmer, university professor
- Ondřej Čepekb. 1964CZresearcher
- Radim Cepekb. 1975CZCzech floorball player
- Cinzia Cepekresearcher
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 299 | #2,121 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 295 | #5,579 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 109 | #7,366 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 100 | — |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 6 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Čepek mean, and where does it come from?
- genitive plural of čepka Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Čepek?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃepek/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- In which country does Čepek have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 295 people named Čepek, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Čepek most common?
- Čepek is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 36 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Čepek?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 295 people named Čepek, about 1 in 36 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Čepek?
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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%8DepekThe 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, “Čepek”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.