Paksi

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Indonesian: the sharp end of a kujang

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 201K(measured from records)
  • CZCzechia1 in 764K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Croatia (measured from records)

21 people, 2021

Sources
68 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 201K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Of, from, or pertaining to Paks.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

How Paksi is read(measured from records)

Paksi 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.

  • English36%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Paksi in English.

  • Indonesian33%

    the sharp end of a kujang

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

  • Hungarian16%

    Of, from, or pertaining to Paks.

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

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)

Paksi 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 Paksi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia211 in 201K21——
CZ Czechia141 in 764K14——
CH Switzerland31 in 2.8M3Paksi1
BE Belgium21 in 5.9M2—1
PL Poland21 in 19M2——

21 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); MVČR — living population register 2017; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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)

Paksi is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Slovak surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia, Czechia

    Languages: Slovak, Czech

    Also written Pakši, Pakší

  • Croatian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Serbia

    Also written Pakši

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Pakši

  • Turkish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Pakşi

24 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)

Paksi 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 osn, a bird; an avian

    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)

12001400160018002000Oliver Paksi, b. 1300Mihály Paksi, b. 1683Lajos Paksi, b. 1695Mihály Paksi, b. 1715István Szathmári Paksi, b. 1719Ábrahám Szathmári Paksi, b. 1725Dániel Szathmári Paksi, b. 1734Mihály Paksi, b. 1745Endre Paksi, b. 1958

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 Ms Paksi,
InformalHi Paksi,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 9 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Paksi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—12#72,323
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20243#154,370
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262—
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20082#144,367
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#376,448

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 Paksi come from?
Of, from, or pertaining to Paks. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Paksi?
A machine transcription gives /pæksi/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Paksi mean?
In Indonesian, the sharp end of a kujang
In which country does Paksi have the most bearers?
In Croatia, the national register counted about 21 people named Paksi, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Paksi most common?
Paksi is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 201 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Paksi?
In Croatia, the national register counted 21 people named Paksi in 2021, about 1 in 201 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, “Paksi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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