Hynek
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a pet form of the German personal name Heinrich (see Henry)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈhaɪnɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hynek is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- CZCzechia
- PLPoland
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a pet form of the German personal name Heinrich (see Henry).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hynek is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Czech, a male given name, equivalent to English Henry
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Czech form of Heinrich
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)
- Alois Hynekb. 1842CZCzech publisher (1842-1909)
- Franciszek Hynekb. 1897PLPolish sportsperson and officer (1897-1958)
- J. Allen Hynekb. 1910USAmerican astronomer (1910–1986)
- Karel Hynekb. 1925CZCzech poet (1925-1953)
- Jiří Hynekb. 1960CZCzech manager and politician
- Josef Hynekb. 1965CZCzech computer scientist
- Jaroslav Hynekb. 1975CZassociation football player and coach
- Lauren Hynekb. 1978USscreenwriter
- Kristián Hynekb. 1980CZCzech mountain bike rider
- Joel Hynekb. 2000Visual Effects Artist
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)
Attested in 32 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 9.3K | #202 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 4.7K | #226 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 4.7K | #226 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #12,322 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #12,792 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 9 | #37,542 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 4 | #20,354 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2001 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #21,526 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2015 | 2 | #1,656 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2022 | 1 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2015 | 1 | #2,393 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
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
- In which country does Hynek have the most bearers?
- Hynek is most frequently recorded in the United States.
- What does the name Hynek mean, and where does it come from?
- from a pet form of the German personal name Heinrich (see Henry). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Hynek?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhaɪnɪk/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Hynek?
- In the etymology graph, Henning, Hein and Jindra are forms of the same name in other languages.
What do you want to know about Hynek?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hynekThe 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, “Hynek”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.