Haiduc
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Alternative spelling of hajduk
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/haɪduk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Haiduc is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- RORomania
- ESSpain
- FRFrance
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a Robin Hood-like figure
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Haiduc is read(measured from records)
Haiduc 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.
- English45%
Alternative spelling of hajduk.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Romanian24%
a Robin Hood-like figure
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
HAIDÚC, haiduci, s. m. 1. Om care, răzvrătindu-se împotriva asupririi, își părăsea casa și trăia în păduri, singur sau în cete, jefuind pe bogați și ajutând pe săraci; haramin. 2. (Înv.) Soldat mercenar.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
- French10%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Haiduc in French.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
- Ionel Haiducb. 1937RORomanian chemist
- Maria Haiducb. 1939RORomanian folk music singer
- Ion Haiducb. 1947RORomanian actor
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 5 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 100 | #27,655 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 100 | #27,429 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3 | #122,846 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- Where does the name Haiduc come from?
- a Robin Hood-like figure Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Haiduc?
- In the etymology graph, Hajduk is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Haiduc?
- A machine transcription gives /haɪduk/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Haiduc mean?
- In English, Alternative spelling of hajduk.
- In which country does Haiduc have the most bearers?
- Haiduc is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/haiducThe 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, “Haiduc”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.