Čech
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈt͡ʃɛx/(recorded in a dictionary) Czech · from Wiktionary
Čech is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Czechia. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Old Czech Čech. From the root čel- (member of the people, kinsman), cognate to člověk (“human”) + -ch.
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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.
How to pronounce Čech
- Czech:/ˈt͡ʃɛx/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Slovak:/t͡ʃex/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Inherited from Old Czech Čech. From the root čel- (member of the people, kinsman), cognate to člověk (“human”) + -ch.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Čech counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | — | 6.4K | — |
| SK Slovakia | — | 1.4K | — |
| US United States | — | 1.2K | — |
| PL Poland | — | 160 | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 91 | — |
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: naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)- Svatopluk Čechb. 1846CZCzech poet, publicist and bookwriter (1846–1908)
- Eduard Čechb. 1893CZCzech mathematician (1893-1960)
- Petr Čechb. 1982CZCzech footballer (born 1982)
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Čech mean, and where does it come from?
- Inherited from Old Czech Čech. From the root čel- (member of the people, kinsman), cognate to člověk (“human”) + -ch. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Čech?
- It depends on the language: in Czech /ˈt͡ʃɛx/ (Wiktionary); in Slovak /t͡ʃex/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Čech have the most bearers?
- Čech is most frequently recorded in Czechia.
What do you want to know about Čech?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C4%8DechThe 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, “Čech” — ranked 88th in Czechia (naše jména). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.