Fleck
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: from ON flaki, fleki 'hurdle', metonymic for a maker of these, or from Flecknoe in Wolfhampcote, Warwickshire; first attested Roger Fleke 1210–11 PWi
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/flɛk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fleck is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 38K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 46K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 75K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 172 (measured from records)
- 1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)
8,852 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- ONflaki(measured from records)
- Flecknoein(measured from records)
from ON flaki, fleki 'hurdle', metonymic for a maker of these, or from Flecknoe in Wolfhampcote, Warwickshire; first attested Roger Fleke 1210–11 PWi
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Fleck is read(measured from records)
Fleck is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English73%
from ON flaki, fleki 'hurdle', metonymic for a maker of these, or from Flecknoe in Wolfhampcote, Warwickshire; first attested Roger Fleke 1210–11 PWi
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
occupational name for a maker of wattled hurdles, from a Middle English agent-noun derivative of Old Scandinavian flaki, fleki ‘hurdle’.
as a nameThe Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- German8.9%
from 'field/patch'; also 'birthmark on the face'; or occupational byname
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
cation. Bahlow suggests various possible reasons for its it is a metonymic occupational name for a user of patches
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
stain
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
stain, spot, blot, fleck, smear
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese6.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Fleck in Portuguese.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fleck 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 8,852 | 1 in 38K | 8.9K | Fleck | 63 |
| BR Brazil | 4,592 | 1 in 46K | 4.6K | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 135 | 1 in 337K | 135 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 112 | 1 in 75K | 112 | — | 5 |
| ES Spain | 42 | 1 in 1.2M | 42 | Fleck | 2 |
| FI Finland | 31 | 1 in 180K | 31 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 21 | 1 in 279K | 21 | — | — |
8,852 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
- Luise Fleckb. 1873ATAustrian film director, screenwriter, film producer (1873–1950)
- Jacob Fleckb. 1881ATAustrian film director, screenwriter, film producer and cameraman (1881–1953)
- Fred Fleckb. 1892USAmerican director and production manager
- Ludwik Fleckb. 1896PLPolish physician (1896–1961)
- John Fleckb. 1951USAmerican actor
- Béla Fleckb. 1958USAmerican banjo player
- Robert Fleckb. 1965GBScottish footballer (born 1965)
- Ryan Fleckb. 1976USAmerican film director and screenwriter
- Rory Fleck-Byrneb. 1988GBIrish actor
- John Fleckb. 1991GBScottish footballer (born 1991)
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 29 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 8.9K | #4,012 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.5K | #3,831 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.2K | #4,187 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 4.6K | #2,394 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 135 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 112 | #10,090 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 42 | #50,557 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 42 | #50,051 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 31 | #33,727 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 21 | #21,999 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
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 Fleck mean, and where does it come from?
- from ON flaki, fleki 'hurdle', metonymic for a maker of these, or from Flecknoe in Wolfhampcote, Warwickshire; first attested Roger Fleke 1210–11 PWi Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Fleck?
- A machine transcription gives /flɛk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Fleck have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 8.9 thousand people named Fleck, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fleck.
- Where is Fleck most common?
- Fleck is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 38 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Fleck?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,852 people named Fleck in 2010, about 1 in 38 thousand residents.
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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, “Fleck”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.