Pogačnik
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021
Pogačnik is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country: 974 people, counted by stat.si Imena rojstva.
- SISlovenia1 in 2.2K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 2.9M
- ARArgentina1 in 4.1M
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
- 19 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
974 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Pogacnik in US United States.
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 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Pogačnik is found
(measured from records)Pogačnik 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 | #168 | 974 | 1 in 2.2K | 974 | Pogačnik | 19 |
| US United States | — | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 5M | listed | Pogacnik | 15 |
| HR Croatia | — | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 250K | 12 | Pogačnik | 10 |
| AR Argentina | — | 11 | 1 in 4.1M | 11 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 4 | 1 in 2.9M | 4 | — | — |
974 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: stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)- Jože Pogačnikb. 1932SISlovenian filmmaker (1932-2016)
- Marko Pogačnikb. 1944SISlovenian artist and author (born 1944)
- Milan Pogačnikb. 1946SISlovenian politician
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)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Pogačnik?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted about 974 people named Pogačnik, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pogačnik. After it come United States, Croatia, Argentina and Belgium; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Pogačnik most common?
- Pogačnik is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pogačnik?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 974 people named Pogačnik, about 1 in 2.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Pogačnik compared with other names?
- In Slovenia, Pogačnik is the 168th most common surname of 13,062 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/poga%C4%8DnikThe 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, “Pogačnik” — ranked 172nd in Slovenia (stat.si Imena rojstva). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.