Pataki
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a habitational surname (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021
/ˈpɒtɒki/(recorded in a dictionary) Hungarian · from Wiktionary
Pataki is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country. Pataki is also written Πατάκη in Greek.
- HUHungary≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- RORomania≈1 in 30Kfew records
- HRCroatia1 in 40K
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.
- Hungary (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 116 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hungary, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Pataki in other scripts: Greek
(measured from records)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.
How to pronounce Pataki
- Hungarian:/ˈpɒtɒki/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a habitational surname
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Pataki is found
(measured from records)Pataki 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.
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: Nyilvántartó — Top-100 birth surnames in population (2020–2025); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Pataki 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 guw, importance
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)- Michael Patakib. 1938USAmerican actor (1938-2010)
- George Patakib. 1945USGovernor of New York from 1995 to 2006
- Allison Patakib. 1984USAmerican author
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)30 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pataki mean, and where does it come from?
- a habitational surname Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Pataki?
- In Hungarian /ˈpɒtɒki/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Pataki?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.0 thousand people named Pataki in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pataki. After it come Romania, United States, Serbia and Croatia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Pataki?
- In the United States, the national register counted 341 people named Pataki in 2010, about 1 in 975 thousand residents.
- How common is Pataki compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Pataki is the 112th most common surname of 88,284 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/patakiThe 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, “Pataki” — ranked 89th in Hungary (Nyilvántartó). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.