Lorek
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a pet form of Lorenz
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɫɔɹɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lorek is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- PLPoland
- DEGermany
- USUnited States
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 Lorenz.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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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)
- Christian Gottlieb Lorekb. 1788PLbotanist (1788-1871)
- Jan Kanty Lorekb. 1886PLPolish priest
- Manfred Lorekb. 1940PLPolish animal scientist
- Grzegorz Lorekb. 1970PLPolish politician and deputy
- Tomasz Lorekb. 1973PLPolish journalist
- Siegfried Lorekb. 1977DEGerman politician
- Maria Lorekb. 1988PLPolish painter
- Antonina Lorekb. 1995PLPolish athletics competitor
- Sylvia LorekATresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0003-1518-9697
- Daria LorekPLresearcher
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 20 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2.6K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2.6K | #935 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2.6K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2.6K | #930 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 424 | #47,120 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 412 | #54,078 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 404 | #51,512 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 53 | #28,035 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 44 | #28,248 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 39 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 34 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 34 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- 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
- What does the name Lorek mean, and where does it come from?
- from a pet form of Lorenz. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Lorek?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫɔɹɪk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Lorek have the most bearers?
- Lorek is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lorekThe 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
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lorek”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.