Given name & surname · also Czech
Valek
Valek is a surname from Czech, ultimately from Polish.
Original PolishWałek
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Valek comes from Czech, and ultimately from Polish.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2000. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Valek through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 28
- 28 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2000
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2007. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 2000. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 750 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Valek’s family of names
In English usage, Valek as a surname was borrowed from the Czech form Válek. In English usage, Valek as a surname has a related form in WALEK. In English usage, Valek as a surname was borrowed from the Polish form Wałek.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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