Zdenka

given name · Czech · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Zdenka is a given name, most frequently recorded in the Czechia, where it is the 49th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Czech and Croatian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: processed cheese.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 186◐
  • HRCroatia1 in 365
  • SKSlovakia1 in 615

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈18K ●

across 9 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
105 ●

44K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 365 ◐

Croatia

Spellings & scripts●

ZdenkaLatin · Czech●362K records
ЗденкаCyrillic · Macedonian●63 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Зденка in MK North Macedonia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

processed cheese

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Zdenka is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia#49503,7825.7K rec.—69KZdenka105
HR Croatia#9411,59729K rec.1 in 36512KZdenka64
SI Slovenia—5,143△156 rec.1 in 4095.1KZdenka29
SK Slovakia#1013,974186 rec.——Zdenka82
DE Germany—1,4901.4K rec.—listedZdenka69
GB United Kingdom—760637 rec.——Zdenka39
AU Australia—725651 rec.—2Zdenka66
RS Serbia#430689280 rec.—listedZdenka28
US United States—4494.5K rec.1 in 741K449Zdenka103
FR France—410315 rec.—listedZdenka81
AR Argentina—294224 rec.—4Zdenka20
CA Canada—279266 rec.——Zdenka31

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Czech362K78%
  • Croatian75K16%
  • Hungarian11K2%
  • Slovak3.9K1%
  • English3.7K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Czech361,68278%
Croatian74,98816%
Hungarian10,9302%
Slovak3,8911%
English3,7461%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Zdenka is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name483 records spelled Zdenka3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Serbia

    Also written Zdeňka, Zděnka

  • Finnish given name125 records spelled Zdenka4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland

    Also written Zdeňka

  • Italian given name107 records spelled Zdenka2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States

    Also written Zdeňka

  • Ukrainian given name93 records spelled Zdenka14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, United States, United Kingdom, Russia

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian

    Also written Зденка, Zdenko, Зденька, Zdeňka, Здэнка

  • Thai given name33 records spelled Zdenka3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Zdeňka

  • Greek given name30 records spelled Zdenka2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece

    Also written Zdeňka

35 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Zdenka is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, feminine form of Zdeněk

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  • In German, weibl. Vom., weibliche Form von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

05010015020002005201020152020149 · 1999

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Zdenka in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
1999149
2000146
2001145
2002143
2003141
2004140
2005140
2006139
2007138
2008135
2009133
2010133
2011134
2012135
2013133
2014134
2015135
2016133
2017135
2018136
2019136
2020135

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1400160018002000Sidonie of Poděbrady, b. 1449Zdenka Braunerová, b. 1858Zdeňka Wiedermannová-Motyčkova, b. 1868Zdenka Hásková, b. 1878Zdenka Rubinstein, b. 1911Zdenka Doitcheva, b. 1926Zdenka Cerar, b. 1941Zdeňka Vávrová, b. 1945Zdenka Kramplová, b. 1957Zdenka Badovinac, b. 1958

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 38 sources across 22 countries.

Official registers attesting Zdenka
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—25K#100
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—25K#100
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202112K#89
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)20219.6K—
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20085.8K#49
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20095.8K#47
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20105.7K#47
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20115.7K#47
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20125.7K#47
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20135.6K#47
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20145.6K#47
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20155.6K#47

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 147 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Zdenka?
We estimate roughly 18 thousand people bear Zdenka (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Zdenka have the most bearers?
Zdenka is most frequently recorded in the Czechia, where it is most often spelled zdenka.
How common is Zdenka compared with other names?
In the Czechia, Zdenka is the 49th most common given name of 28,899 given names recorded there.
Is Zdenka a male or female name?
Zdenka is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Zdenka mean?
Recorded meaning: processed cheese
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Zdenka” — the 49th most common given name in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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