Pecina
surname · Latin script
Meaning: slime, sludge
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pesina/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pecina is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 117K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 17K
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 42K
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)
- Sources
- 144 (measured from records)
- 1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
2,842 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
slime, sludge
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pecina 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 | 2,842 | 1 in 117K | 2.8K | Pecina | 144 |
| ES Spain | 643 | 1 in 78K | 643 | Pecina | 19 |
| CZ Czechia | 619 | 1 in 17K | 619 | — | — |
| GT Guatemala | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Pecina | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 97K | — | Pecina | 2 |
| HR Croatia | 78 | 1 in 54K | 78 | — | — |
2,842 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); MVČR — living population register 2017; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Tomáš Pecinab. 1966CZCzech legal activist, blogger and translator (1966–2025)
- Martin Pecinab. 1968CZCzech manager and politician
- Martin Pecinab. 1982CZCzech typographer and graphic artist
- Iñaki Peciñab. 1988ESSpanish handball player
- Pavel PecinaCZresearcher
- Adam PecinaITresearcher
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 19 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.8K | #11,142 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.8K | #10,755 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.9K | #14,622 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 619 | #2,397 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 619 | #2,315 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 11 | #114,632 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (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
- What does the name Pecina mean, and where does it come from?
- slime, sludge Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Pecina?
- A machine transcription gives /pesina/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Pecina have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.8 thousand people named Pecina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pecina.
- Where is Pecina most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pecina is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 17 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Pecina?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,842 people named Pecina in 2010, about 1 in 117 thousand 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/pecinaThe 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, “Pecina”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.