Palkova
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
/palkova/(machine-generated) Czech · model-generated
Palkova is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 9.6M(measured from records)
- RURussia≈1 in 750Kas Палькова
- CZCzechia1 in 15K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Palkova itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 84 (measured from records)
- 1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
697 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Палькова in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, BY Belarus, Pálková in CZ Czechia and Palková in SK Slovakia.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Palkova 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.
697 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Palkova?
- It depends on the language: in Czech /palkova/; in Slovak /palkova/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Palkova have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 697 people named Palkova, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pálková.
- Where is Palkova most common?
- Palkova is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 15 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Palkova?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 697 people named Palkova, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
- How common is Palkova compared with other names?
- In Slovakia, Palkova is the 966th most common surname of 69,668 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Palkova?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/palkovaThe 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, “Palkova” — the 966th most common surname in Slovakia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.