Palkó
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a diminutive of the male given name Pál
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
/ˈpɒlkoː/(recorded in a dictionary) Hungarian · from Wiktionary
Palkó is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- HUHungary≈1 in 10Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- SISlovenia1 in 30K
- IEIreland≈1 in 43Kfew records
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 255 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
1,592 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hungary, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Palko in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 2 more.
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)a diminutive of the male given name Pál
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Palkó 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1,592 | 1 in 209K | 1.7K | Palko | 255 |
| HU Hungary | #731 | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Palkó | 41 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Palko | 14 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 297K | 14 | Palko | 36 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 184K | — | Palko | 43 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Palko | 5 |
| HR Croatia | — | 73 | 1 in 58K | 73 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | — | 69 | 1 in 30K | 69 | — | — |
1,592 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)- Sándor Palkób. 1911HUHungarian politician (1911-2001)
- István Palkób. 1913HUHungarian linguist
- Attila Palkób. 1922RO(1922-2012)
- Ernő Palkób. 1958ROceramicist from Romania
- Tibor Palkób. 1959HUHungarian painter
- Sándor Palkób. 1959HUHungarian biologist (1959-2002)
- Dávid Palkób. 1989HUHungarian footballer
- Fruzsina Palkób. 1992HUHungarian handball player
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Palkó mean, and where does it come from?
- a diminutive of the male given name Pál Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Palkó?
- In Hungarian /ˈpɒlkoː/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Palkó have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Palkó, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled palko.
- How common is the name Palkó?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,592 people named Palkó in 2010, about 1 in 209 thousand residents.
- How common is Palkó compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Palkó is the 731st most common surname of 88,284 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/palk%C3%B3The 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, “Palkó” — the 731st most common surname in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.