Petek
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Turkish: honeycomb
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/petˈɛk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Petek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country, where it is the 53rd most common surname.
- HRCroatia1 in 3.2K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 784
- CHSwitzerland1 in 350K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Slovenia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 56 (measured from records)
- 1 in 784 (inferred from the name graph)
2,681 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
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)
honeycomb
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Petek is read(measured from records)
Petek is one spelling over 3 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.
- Turkish60%
honeycomb
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
1. Arıların yumurtalarını bırakmak ve bal depo etmek için yaptığı bal mumu yuvacıklar. 2. Arı kovanı. 3. Topraktan, çamurdan yapılan tahıl ambarı.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Croatian17%
Friday
as a wordrecorded as Serbo-Croatiankaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English12%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Petek in English.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Petek 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 | #53 | 2,681 | 1 in 784 | 2.7K | Petek | 39 |
| HR Croatia | #339 | 1,307 | 1 in 3.2K | 1.3K | Petek | 56 |
| US United States | — | 262 | 1 in 1.3M | 363 | Petek | 56 |
| BR Brazil | — | 172 | 1 in 1.2M | 172 | — | — |
| PL Poland | — | 81 | 1 in 473K | 48 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 24 | 1 in 350K | 24 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | — | 11 | 1 in 928K | 11 | — | — |
2,681 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Petek is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In tpn, to slap (to hit with the open hand)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Franc Petekb. 1885ATAustrian politician and physician (1885-1965)
- Milan Petekb. 1950SISlovene economist
- Marija Petekb. 1956SIresearcher
- Miro Petekb. 1959SISlovene journalist and politician
- Štefan Petekb. 1966SISlovenian musician
- Franci Petekb. 1971SIski jumper
- Rajko Petekb. 1971SISlovenian cyclist
- Aleš Petekb. 1980SIresearcher
- Nina Petekb. 1986SISlovene philosopher
- Jelisava PetekSIresearcher
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 31 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 2.7K | #26 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 1.3K | #372 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 1.2K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 363 | #60,024 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 262 | #73,911 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 220 | #80,216 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 172 | #41,551 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 48 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 48 | #51,809 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 33 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 33 | #65,891 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 24 | #32,062 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Petek mean, and where does it come from?
- honeycomb Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Petek?
- A machine transcription gives /petˈɛk/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Petek have the most bearers?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Petek, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled petek.
- Where is Petek most common?
- Petek is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 784 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Petek?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 2,681 people named Petek, about 1 in 784 residents.
- How common is Petek compared with other names?
- In Slovenia, Petek is the 53rd 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/petekThe 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, “Petek” — the 53rd most common surname in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.