Staněk
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Patronymischer Familienname zu slaw
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/staɲɛk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Staněk is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 1.7K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 4.5K
- SISlovenia1 in 29K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 101 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
8,565 people, 2026
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 Stanek in CZ Czechia, US United States, PL Poland and 4 more.
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)
Patronymischer Familienname zu slaw. Rufname Stanislaw/Stanislav; Kurzform Stan-.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Staněk 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #418 | 8,565 | 1 in 4.5K | 4.3K | Stanek | 97 |
| CZ Czechia | #111 | 6,399 | 1 in 1.7K | 6.4K | Stanek | 86 |
| US United States | — | 5,014 | 1 in 66K | 5K | Stanek | 101 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈770 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Stanek | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 101K | 50 | Stanek | 28 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈85 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Stanek | 3 |
| SK Slovakia | #755 | 83 | 1 in 66K | 83 | Stanek | 32 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 72 | 1 in 29K | 72 | — | 2 |
8,565 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: 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); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
- Ivan Bohdan Staněkb. 1828CZCzech member of Czech council, poet and publicist (1828–1868)
- František Staněkb. 1867CZCzech banker and politician (1867-1936)
- Václav Jan Staněkb. 1907CZCzech documentator, photographer, mycologist and zoologist (1907-1983)
- František Staněkb. 1944CZCzechoslovakian coxswain
- Tomáš Staněkb. 1952CZCzech historian, local politician and writer (*1952)
- Jiří Staněkb. 1957CZCzech poet and writer
- Antonín Staněkb. 1966CZCzech politician and university educator
- Tomáš Staněkb. 1991CZCzech athletics competitor
- Jindřich Staněkb. 1996CZCzech association football player
- Roman Staněkb. 2004CZracing driver from the Czech Republic
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 9 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 6.4K | #90 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 6.4K | #90 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 6.4K | #90 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 83 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6 | #188,192 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #398,302 |
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
- How do you pronounce Staněk?
- A machine transcription gives /staɲɛk/ (IPA) for Czech.
- What does the name Staněk mean?
- Recorded meaning: Patronymischer Familienname zu slaw.
- In which country does Staněk have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 8.6 thousand people named Staněk, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stanek.
- Where is Staněk most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Staněk is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 1.7 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Staněk?
- In Poland, the national register counted 8,565 people named Staněk in 2026, about 1 in 4.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Staněk compared with other names?
- In Poland, Staněk is the 418th most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Staněk?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/stan%C4%9BkThe 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, “Staněk” — the 418th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.