Paic

surname · Latin script

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

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

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 3.7K(measured from records)
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 100K
  • RORomania≈1 in 255K

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.

Croatia (measured from records)

1,136 people, 2021

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
39 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 3.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

PaicLatin(measured from records)
ПаићCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Paić in HR Croatia, RS Serbia.

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)

recorded in Romanian

Derivatele se pot explica sau din tc. paik soldat din garda sultanului", daca ele se citesc cu -ai- sau < srb.-cr. Pajko < Pajo < Paulus, daca se pronunta cu diftong 1. Paicu (Ard) ; Busuioc (Drag 133); -I, 1633, ard. (Pal). 2. Paico t. (17 B II 40). 3. Pdicul = Peaicul (Isp IS) ; Peaicul, I., mold. 1600 (Sd V 6). 4. Prob. Peicul, Ionalco (17 A I 97, IV 27, 38, V 163, 329). 5. Peica b. (16 B VI 360) loan, ban. (LB).

Sources 1

  • Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Paic 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 Paic is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia#3941,1361 in 3.7K1.1KPaić39
RO Romania—≈84 est.≈1 in 255K—Paic4
RS Serbia—≈70 est.≈1 in 100K—Paić8
US United States—≈33 est.≈1 in 10MlistedPaic25
ES Spain—171 in 2.9M17——
CH Switzerland—141 in 600K14—3
SE Sweden—≈6 est.≈1 in 1.8M—Paic3

1,136 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); 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)

Paic is also recorded as 7 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, Germany, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Paić

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Romania

    Also written Paić, Païc

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Paić, Païc

  • Romanian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, United States, Italy

    Also written Paić

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Paić

  • Hindi name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Paić

  • Arabic name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Paić

15 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)

Paic is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Romanian, PAÍC, paici, s. m. Soldat din garda personală a sultanului sau a domnilor țărilor românești.

    as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Paic
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—17#91,572
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202414#47,506
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Paic have the most bearers?
In Croatia, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Paic, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled paić.
Where is Paic most common?
Paic is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.7 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Paic?
In Croatia, the national register counted 1,136 people named Paic in 2021, about 1 in 3.7 thousand residents.
How common is Paic compared with other names?
In Croatia, Paic is the 394th most common surname of 72,581 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, “Paic” — the 394th most common surname in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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