Zdeněk
Vanishingly rare in Poland: around 69 men carry it, and most Poles have never met one. Its Slavic root means "builder of glory", and no boys have been given it in recent years.
Zdeněk Pronunciation
Zdeněk is pronounced ZDENĚK (/zdɛněk/).
What Zdeněk means
Where Zdeněk comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zdeněk grows from Slavic ground. The name joins an old Slavic root meaning to build with slava, glory, and that pairing gives the reading recorded here: builder of glory. A Zdeněk is, by the plain sense of the word, one who raises fame the way a mason raises a wall.
The form is Czech, and there it is at home. The Czech animator Zdeněk Miler carried it, and his cartoon mole, Krtek, is known to Polish children too. The name is old. It reached the twentieth century on a working artist and stayed in use.
Read the Slavic parts again and the meaning holds steady: to build, and glory. On a Polish class register the little háček over the e marks it as a guest from across the border. Drop that mark and you still have the same builder of glory.
How many people are named Zdeněk
1 in 309365 men in Poland is named Zdeněk. 69 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4379 among male names.
Zdeněk as a middle name
Zdeněk is a first name for 69 men in Poland and a middle name for another 9, an 88/12 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3451st, between Zafer (9) and Zev (9).
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#3449 Yuval9
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#3450 Zafer9
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#3451 Zdenek9
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#3452 Zev9
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#3453 Zia9