Konik

surname · Latin script

Meaning: from konik ‘pony’ (a diminutive of Polish koh, Czech kuh ‘horse’), a nickname for someone thought to resemble a pony in some way, for example in short stature or docile temperament

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/koʊnɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Konik is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 13K(measured from records)
  • UAUkraine≈1 in 12Kas Коник
  • RURussia≈1 in 100Kas Коник

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Konik itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)

≈3,700 named Коник, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
110 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

КоникCyrillic(measured from records)
KonykLatin(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Коник in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, TR Türkiye.

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)

from konik ‘pony’ (a diminutive of Polish koh, Czech kuh ‘horse’), a nickname for someone thought to resemble a pony in some way, for example in short stature or docile temperament.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Konik 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 Konik is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
UA Ukraine≈3,700 est.≈1 in 12K—Коник41
PL Poland2,9921 in 13K1.5KKonik64
RU Russia≈1,400 est.≈1 in 100K—Коник110
US United States3801 in 875K380Konik48
TR Türkiye≈100 est.≈1 in 822K—Коник1
UY Uruguay271 in 125K27——
EE Estonia≈9 est.≈1 in 140K8Konik4

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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)

Konik is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Koenik, Könik, Köñik, Koník

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Könik

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Koník

  • Indonesian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Koník

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States

    Also written Köñïk

  • Croatian surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Kazakhstan, Israel, Russia

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian, Bulgarian

    Also written Коник, Kon̂ik, Koník

30 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Konik is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Polish, diminutive of koń

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • variant of Koenig.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • variant of Koning.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In chk, water

    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)

1850190019502000Konstantin Konik, b. 1873Eugeniusz Konik, b. 1914George Konik, b. 1937Michael Konik, b. 1956Bernhard Konik, b. 1960Roman Konik, b. 1968Anna Konik, b. 1974Peter Konik, b. 1979

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)

FormalDear Konik,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 26 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Konik
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20261.5K—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—1.5K#1,940
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20261.5K—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—1.5K#1,919
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010380#54,296
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000373#52,289
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020366#59,630
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—27—
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—8#12,496
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—8#12,979
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 6

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 Konik mean, and where does it come from?
from konik ‘pony’ (a diminutive of Polish koh, Czech kuh ‘horse’), a nickname for someone thought to resemble a pony in some way, for example in short stature or docile temperament. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Konik?
A machine transcription gives /koʊnɪk/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Konik have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.7 thousand people named Коник in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Konik most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Konik is densest in Poland — about 1 in 13 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Konik?
In Poland, the national register counted 2,992 people named Konik in 2026, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.

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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, “Konik”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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