Pecek
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Czech: genitive plural of pecka
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pɛʃɛk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pecek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 7.3K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 6.6K
- CZCzechia1 in 369K
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)
- Sources
- 31 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.6K (inferred from the name graph)
583 people, 2021
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Peček in HR Croatia, SI Slovenia.
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)
dowel, peg (a cylindrical wooden pin fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
How Pecek is read(measured from records)
Pecek is one spelling over 5 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.
- English51%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Pecek in English.
- Croatian24%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Pecek in Croatian.
- Czech14%
genitive plural of pecka
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Indonesian5.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Pecek in Indonesian.
- Hungarian5.7%
dowel, peg (a cylindrical wooden pin fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position)
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)
Pecek 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.
583 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); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); MVČR — living population register 2017; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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)
- Petra Pecekováb. 1982CZnot in their usual nameCzech karateka
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)
Attested in 11 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 108 | #7,422 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 100 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 29 | #42,530 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 29 | #13,452 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Pecek come from?
- dowel, peg (a cylindrical wooden pin fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Pecek?
- A machine transcription gives /pɛʃɛk/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Pecek mean?
- In Czech, genitive plural of pecka
- In which country does Pecek have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 583 people named Pecek, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled peček.
- Where is Pecek most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pecek is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 6.6 thousand people — even though Croatia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Pecek?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 583 people named Pecek in 2021, about 1 in 7.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Pecek compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Pecek is the 870th most common surname of 72,581 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/pecekThe 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, “Pecek” — the 870th most common surname in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.