Petan
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021
Petan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country.
- SISlovenia1 in 5K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 106K
- CZCzechia1 in 1.3M
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.
- Slovenia (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 58 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.0K (inferred from the name graph)
420 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Petan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | 420 | 1 in 5K | 420 | Petan | 5 |
| IN India | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 20M | 1 | — | 3 |
| US United States | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 5.8M | listed | Petan | 58 |
| DE Germany | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Petan | 30 |
| BR Brazil | 42 | 1 in 5M | 42 | — | — |
| HR Croatia | 40 | 1 in 106K | 40 | — | — |
| KE Kenya | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Petan | 5 |
| AT Austria | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 855K | — | Petan | 5 |
| CZ Czechia | 8 | 1 in 1.3M | 8 | — | — |
420 people counted by stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); MVČR — living population register 2017; naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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)Petan is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Galician, third-person plural present indicative of petar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, inessive indefinite of pe
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Žarko Petanb. 1929SISlovenian writer and director (1929–2014)
- Rudolf Petanb. 1949SISlovene politician
- Bojan Petanb. 1961SISlovenian politician
- Martina Petanb. 1976SIresearcher
- Sašo Petanb. 1978SIresearcher
- Robert Petanb. 1991SISlovene singer-songwriter
- Nicolas Petanb. 1995CACanadian ice hockey player
- Majda Petanb. 2000SISlovene singer
- Toni PetanSIresearcher
- Luca PetanSIresearcher
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 420 | #812 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 42 | #118,404 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 40 | #15,359 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 40 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 8 | #89,453 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 8 | #18,965 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #193,690 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- In which country does Petan have the most bearers?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted about 420 people named Petan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled petan.
- Where is Petan most common?
- Petan is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Petan?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 420 people named Petan, about 1 in 5.0 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Petan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/petanThe 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, “Petan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.