Krajnik
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Krajnik is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. In Polish, recorded as cornice.
- SISlovenia1 in 5.1K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 21K
- SKSlovakia1 in 22K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 50 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.1K (inferred from the name graph)
1,781 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Krajník in SK Slovakia, CZ Czechia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Polish; Ukrainian (Krajnyk); Czech and Slovak (Krajnik); and Slovenian: topographic name for someone who lived on the edge of a village, from Slavic krajny, an adjectival derivative of kraj ‘end’, ‘border’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
How Krajnik is read(measured from records)
Krajnik is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English51%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Krajnik in English.
- Polish14%
cornice
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Croatian11%
tonsil
as a wordrecorded as Serbo-Croatiankaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish7.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Krajnik in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Krajnik counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
1,781 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); MVČR — living population register 2017; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Krajnik is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Polish; Ukrainian (Krajnyk); Czech and Slovak (Krajnik); and Slovenian: topographic name for someone who lived on the edge of a village, from Slavic krajny, an adjectival derivative of kraj ‘end’, ‘border’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Pavel Krajnikb. 1924SISlowian priest, writer and monk (1924-2018)
- Milan Krajnikb. 1937SISlovenian economist
- Janez Krajnikb. 1941SIresearcher
- Marija Krajnikb. 1942SISlovenian poet
- Károly Krajnik-Nagyb. 1947RORomanian-Hungarian journalist and translator
- Katja Krajnikb. 1973SISlovenian violinist
- Bartosz KrajnikPLPolish physicist
- Primož KrajnikSIresearcher
- Peter KrajnikSIresearcher
- Małgorzata KrajnikPLPolish physician and university teacher
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(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 11 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Krajnik come from?
- Polish; Ukrainian (Krajnyk); Czech and Slovak (Krajnik); and Slovenian: topographic name for someone who lived on the edge of a village, from Slavic krajny, an adjectival derivative of kraj ‘end’, ‘bo… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Krajnik mean?
- In Polish, cornice
- In which country does Krajnik have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Krajnik, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled krajnik.
- Where is Krajnik most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Krajnik is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 5.1 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Krajnik?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,781 people named Krajnik in 2026, about 1 in 21 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/krajnikThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Krajnik”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.