Dornik
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dɔɹnɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dornik is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country.
- SISlovenia1 in 4.3K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 157K
- ATAustria≈1 in 198K
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)
- Sources
- 82 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
489 people
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dornik 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 | 489 | 1 in 4.3K | 489 | Dornik | 10 |
| US United States | ≈99 est. | ≈1 in 3.4M | listed | Dornik | 82 |
| DE Germany | ≈87 est. | ≈1 in 922K | — | Dornik | 35 |
| AT Austria | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 198K | — | Dornik | 12 |
| HR Croatia | 27 | 1 in 157K | 27 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 9 | 1 in 934K | 9 | Dornik | 3 |
489 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Polona Dornikb. 1962SISlovenian basketball player
- Domen Dornikb. 1991SISlovene triathlete
- Ema DornikSIresearcher
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 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 489 | #618 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 27 | #19,439 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 25 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 9 | #65,843 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Dornik?
- A machine transcription gives /dɔɹnɪk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Dornik have the most bearers?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted about 489 people named Dornik, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dornik.
- Where is Dornik most common?
- Dornik is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Dornik?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 489 people named Dornik, about 1 in 4.3 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Dornik?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dornikThe 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, “Dornik”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.