Rác
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Hungarian: Serb (a person of Serb descent living in Hungary)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: JÚĽŠ SAV, 1995
/raːt͡s/(machine-generated) Slovak · model-generated · uncertain
Rác is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovakia than in any other country.
- SKSlovakia1 in 4.9K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 12K
- HRCroatia1 in 13K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Slovakia (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 28 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.9K (inferred from the name graph)
1,100 people, 1995
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovakia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Rac in CZ Czechia, RS Serbia, RO Romania.
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)Serb (a person of Serb descent living in Hungary)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
How Rác is read
(measured from records)Rác 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.
- Slovak40%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Rác in Slovak.
- Czech32%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Rác in Czech.
- Hungarian17%
Serb (a person of Serb descent living in Hungary)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Vietnamese5.6%
short, scattered straws and stalks
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Rác 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.
1,100 people counted by JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census), 1995. 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: JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); MVČR — living population register 2017; 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)- András Rácb. 1926HUHungarian painter, mosaicist, graphic artist (1926–2013)
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 1.1K | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 900 | #1,525 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 900 | #1,286 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 900 | #1,508 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
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 Rác mean, and where does it come from?
- Serb (a person of Serb descent living in Hungary) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Rác?
- It depends on the language: in Slovak /raːt͡s/; in Czech /ˈraːt͡s/ (Wiktionary); in Hungarian /rats/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Rác have the most bearers?
- In Slovakia, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Rác, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rác.
- Where is Rác most common?
- Rác is densest in Slovakia, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Rác?
- In Slovakia, the national register counted 1,100 people named Rác in 1995, about 1 in 4.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Rác compared with other names?
- In Slovakia, Rác is the 483rd most common surname of 69,668 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/r%C3%A1cThe 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, “Rác” — the 483rd most common surname in Slovakia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.