# Zdeněk (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/zdenek/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | not in the US data |
| Boys / girls in the US | not in the US data |
| Babies in England and Wales | 7, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 4 | 3,987 |
| 2013 | 3 | 4,685 |

## People named Zdeněk

- Zdeněk Grygera, Czech footballer
- Zdeněk Miler, Czech animator and illustrator (1921–2011)
- Zdeněk Zeman, Czech soccer coach (born 1947)
- Zdeněk Nehoda, Czech footballer
- Zdeněk Štybar, Czech cyclist
- Zdeněk Svěrák, Czech actor
- Zdeněk Fibich, Czech conductor, music educator, composer and choirmaster (1850-1900)
- Zdeněk Pospěch, Czech footballer
- Zdeněk Fierlinger, Czechoslovak member of Czechoslovak national parliament, legioneer, minister of industry a
- Zdeněk Nejedlý, Czech musicologist, writer and politician (1878–1962)
- Zdeněk Zikán, Czech footballer (1937-2013)
- Zdeněk Burian, Czech illustrator, painter and biological illustrator (1905-1981)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.