Čejka

surname · Latin script

Meaning: lapwing

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 5.3K(measured from records)
  • SKSlovakia1 in 136K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 336K

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)

2,025 people

Sources
7 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 5.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

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:

Locally spelled Cejka 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)

lapwing

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Čejka 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 Čejka is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia2,0251 in 5.3K2K——
US United States5481 in 607K554Cejka5
SK Slovakia401 in 136K40——
CH Switzerland251 in 336K25—1
HR Croatia121 in 352K12Čejka7
NO Norway121 in 456K12——

2,025 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)

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

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Cejka

  • Czech surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, United States, Argentina, Slovakia

    Languages: Czech, Spanish, Slovak

    Also written Cejka, Céjka

  • English surname8 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Cejka

  • Polish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Cejka

  • a separate surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Cejka

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Cejka

7 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)

192019401960198020002020Jiří Čejka, b. 1929Mirek Čejka, b. 1929Jaroslav Čejka, b. 1936Jaroslav Čejka, b. 1943Jaromír Čejka, b. 1947Jiří Čejka, b. 1954Jiří Čejka, b. 1955Alex Čejka, b. 1970Marek Čejka, b. 1975Jan Čejka, b. 2001

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)

FormalVážený pane / paní Čejka,Dear Čejka, (English)
InformalVážený pane / paní Čejka,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 11 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Čejka
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—2K#573
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—2K#573
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—2K#575
SK SlovakiaJÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census)199540—
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202112#29,838
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202110—

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 Čejka mean, and where does it come from?
lapwing Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Čejka?
A machine transcription gives /t͡ʃɛjka/ (IPA) for Czech.
In which country does Čejka have the most bearers?
In Czechia, the national register counted about 2.0 thousand people named Čejka, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Čejka most common?
Čejka is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.3 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Čejka?
In Czechia, the national register counted 2,025 people named Čejka, about 1 in 5.3 thousand residents.

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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, “Čejka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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