Péntek
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Friday
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Péntek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.4M(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 22K
- HUHungary≈1 in 54K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 111 (measured from records)
- 1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Pentek in US United States, DE Germany, CD Congo - Kinshasa and 2 more.
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)
Friday
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Péntek 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Pentek | 1 |
| US United States | 239 | 1 in 1.4M | 239 | Pentek | 111 |
| HR Croatia | 193 | 1 in 22K | 193 | — | 1 |
| HU Hungary | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Pentek | 2 |
| DE Germany | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 486K | — | Pentek | 38 |
| RO Romania | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 153K | — | Pentek | 4 |
| SI Slovenia | 34 | 1 in 62K | 34 | — | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Árpád Péntekb. 1921RORomanian teacher
- János Péntekb. 1941ROHungarian linguist
- Imre Péntekb. 1942HUHungarian journalist
- József Kiss Péntekb. 1951SKSlovak writer
- Sándor Péntekb. 1951HUfootball player (1951-2016)
- Orsolya Péntekb. 1974HUHungarian writer, artist
- Jolán PéntekHUHungarian Righteous Among the Nations
- Márta Péntekresearcher
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 3 sources across 2 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Péntek mean, and where does it come from?
- Friday Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Péntek have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Péntek in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pentek.
- Where is Péntek most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Péntek is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 22 thousand people — even though Congo - Kinshasa holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Péntek?
- In the United States, the national register counted 239 people named Péntek in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
What do you want to know about Péntek?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/p%C3%A9ntekThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Péntek”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.