Peták
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: JÚĽŠ SAV, 1995
/pɛtaːk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Peták is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 5.2K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 34K
- SISlovenia1 in 43K
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.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.2K (inferred from the name graph)
809 people, 2021
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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 Petak in HR Croatia, US United States, HU Hungary and 1 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Peták 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.
809 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; MVČR — living population register 2017; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); 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)- Václav Petákb. 1842CZCzech attorney (1842-1917)
- Karel Petákb. 1878CZCzech physician in Pilsen (1878-1944)
- István Petákb. 1940HUHungarian journalist (1940-2015)
- Josef Petákb. 1959CZCzech racecar driver
- Ferenc Petákb. 1967HUHungarian mechanical engineer and health informaticist
- István Petákb. 1971HUHungarian physician
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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 311 | #5,298 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 311 | #4,325 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 111 | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Peták?
- A machine transcription gives /pɛtaːk/ (IPA) for Czech.
- In which country does Peták have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 809 people named Peták, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled petak.
- Where is Peták most common?
- Peták is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Peták?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 809 people named Peták in 2021, about 1 in 5.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Peták compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Peták is the 791st most common surname of 72,581 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Peták?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pet%C3%A1kThe 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, “Peták” — the 791st most common surname in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.