Pušnik
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021
/púːʃnik/(recorded in a dictionary) Slovenian · from Wiktionary
Pušnik is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country.
- SISlovenia1 in 1.3K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 90K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.1M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- Slovenia (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 30 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
1,665 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 Pusnik 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 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Pušnik is found
(measured from records)Pušnik 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 | #123 | 1,665 | 1 in 1.3K | 1.7K | Pušnik | 30 |
| HR Croatia | — | 47 | 1 in 90K | 47 | Pušnik | 12 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 8 | 1 in 1.1M | 8 | — | 2 |
| BE Belgium | — | 2 | 1 in 5.9M | 2 | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | — | — | — | Pusnik | 9 |
| RS Serbia | — | — | — | — | Pušnik | 1 |
1,665 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 — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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)- Marijan Pušnikb. 1960SISlovenian association football player and manager
- Rolando Pušnikb. 1961SIhandball player
- Katjuša Pušnikb. 1969SIOlympic alpine skier
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.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Pušnik?
- In Slovenian /púːʃnik/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Pušnik?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Pušnik, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pušnik. After it come Croatia, Switzerland and Belgium; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Pušnik most common?
- Pušnik is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pušnik?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 1,665 people named Pušnik, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Pušnik compared with other names?
- In Slovenia, Pušnik is the 123rd 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/pu%C5%A1nikThe 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, “Pušnik” — the 123rd most common surname in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.