Pauker
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a kettledrummer (male or unspecified gender) (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021
/ˈpaʊ̯kɐ/(recorded in a dictionary) German · from Wiktionary
Pauker is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 170Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- HRCroatia1 in 201K
- CACanada≈1 in 600Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 143 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 62K (inferred from the name graph)
≈500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Pauker
- German:/ˈpaʊ̯kɐ/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Spanish:/pawceɾ/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a kettledrummer (male or unspecified gender)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where the surname Pauker is found
(measured from records)Pauker 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 167K | listed | Pauker | 51 |
| US United States | 159 | 1 in 2.1M | 167 | Pauker | 143 |
| AT Austria | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Pauker | 19 |
| EC Ecuador | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 137K | — | Pauker | 8 |
| CA Canada | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 597K | — | Pauker | 25 |
| BO Bolivia | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 302K | — | Pauker | 6 |
| HR Croatia | 21 | 1 in 201K | 21 | — | — |
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; the dfa-band-5 register; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)Pauker is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Wohnstättenname zu mnd. boke „Buche“; Bearer count 216.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Means a small drum.
as a nameThe Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
As a musician.
as a nameThe Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
In German, 'drummer'; also linked with BAUGE
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, name for a drummer, Ger. Pauker (MHG pukcere, agent deriv. oipuke drum (mod. Ger. Pauke), of uncertain, pos¬ sibly imitative, origin). Vars.: Ger.: Peuker; Peuchert (Silesia); Peickert (Silesia, Sax¬ ony); Baiker(t). Jewish (Ashkenazic): Paucker.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
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)- Ana Paukerb. 1893RORomanian politician (1893-1960)
- Karl Paukerb. 1893UANKVD officer (1893—1937)
- Robert Conquestb. 1917GBnot in their usual nameBritish historian and poet
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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pauker mean, and where does it come from?
- a kettledrummer (male or unspecified gender) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Pauker?
- It depends on the language: in German /ˈpaʊ̯kɐ/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /pawceɾ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Pauker?
- Mondonomo estimates about 500 people named Pauker in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pauker. After it come United States, Austria, Ecuador and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Pauker?
- In the United States, the national register counted 159 people named Pauker in 2010, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/paukerThe 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, “Pauker”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.