Dvorak

Dvorak is the 4,453rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 7,723 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 38,700.

By the numbers

People: 7,723
Rank: 4,453rd
How common: 1 in 38,700
Per 100,000: 2.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Czech

From Czech Dvořák, from zlw-ocs dvořák (“attendant, tenant farmer”), equivalent to dvůr (“court, courtyard, estate, farm”) + -ák (“-er, -an: forming related nouns”). The keyboard is named after the American inventor August Dvorak.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Dvorak described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 92.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Dvorak

Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904)Czech composer
Tomáš Dvořák (born 1972)Czech athlete
Charles Dvorak (1878–1969)US athletics competitor
Ann Dvorak (1911–1979)American actress
Max Dvořák (1874–1921)Czech art historian
Milan Dvořák (1934–2022)Czech footballer
August Dvorak (1894–1975)American scientist
Radek Dvořák (born 1977)Czech ice hockey player

People named Dvorak with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.