Petak
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Friday
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈpɛtək/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Petak 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)
- Sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.2K (inferred from the name graph)
809 people, 2021
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Friday
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Petak 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Petak is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In zlm, compartment; of a storage hold or compartment in a Malay ship, cubicles or divisions of a house, with floors at different levels, a wardrobe divided into compartments, etc.
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Slovenian, a five banknote or coin (of any currency)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Javanese, nonstandard spelling of pethak
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Sundanese, loud scream, strong call
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In poz-wmp-pro, knock; pop, burst
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Dara Petakconsort of King Kertarajasa Jayawardhana
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)
Attested in 11 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 809 | #730 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 678 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 419 | #49,999 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 412 | #54,078 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 391 | #50,261 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 49 | #7,769 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Petak mean, and where does it come from?
- Friday Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Petak?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈpɛtək/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Petak have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 809 people named Petak, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled petak.
- Where is Petak most common?
- Petak is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Petak?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 809 people named Petak in 2021, about 1 in 5.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Petak compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Petak is the 791st most common surname of 72,581 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/petakThe 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, “Petak” — the 791st most common surname in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.