Breznik

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Breznik is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country, where it is the 65th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • SISlovenia1 in 1.3K(measured from records)
  • HRCroatia1 in 48K
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 649K

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)

1,626 people

Sources
42 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Breznik 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.

Where Breznik is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SI Slovenia#651,6261 in 1.3K1.6KBreznik42
US United States—≈110 est.≈1 in 3M105Breznik30
HR Croatia—891 in 48K89Breznik22
FR France—≈19 est.≈1 in 3.6M—Breznik1
GB United Kingdom—≈17 est.≈1 in 3.9M—Breznik6
RS Serbia—≈11 est.≈1 in 649K—Breznik4
CH Switzerland—71 in 1.2M7—2
SE Sweden—≈7 est.≈1 in 1.4M—Breznik3

1,626 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Breznik is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Austria, Germany

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Brezník, Brežnik

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Brezniḳ, Brežnik

  • Slovak surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia

    Also written Brezník

  • Ukrainian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian

    Also written Брезнік, Брезник, Brežnik

  • Italian name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Brežnik

22 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19201940196019802000Anton Breznik, b. 1936Eta Sadar Breznik, b. 1950Bojan Breznik, b. 1959Melitta Breznik, b. 1961Andreja Breznik, b. 1977Anton Breznik, b. 1984

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)

Attested in 10 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Breznik
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—1.6K#58
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000105#144,908
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202189#8,712
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202179—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20247#79,838
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

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

In which country does Breznik have the most bearers?
In Slovenia, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Breznik, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled breznik.
Where is Breznik most common?
Breznik is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.3 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Breznik?
In Slovenia, the national register counted 1,626 people named Breznik, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
How common is Breznik compared with other names?
In Slovenia, Breznik is the 65th most common surname of 13,062 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Breznik” — the 65th most common surname in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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