Pekaš
surname · Latin script
Pekaš is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 26K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 934K
- USUnited States1 in 2.6M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 20 (measured from records)
- 1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
162 people, 2021
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Pekas in HR Croatia, US United States, RS Serbia and 1 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)Plg. Pėkis, Pekjs, Pėkus ir Pičkas (žr.). Toliau plg. lat. Peka, Pžka, Pieka (B. CranTzMaue, 1981, c. 116), Pžkis (ten pat, 146), Piekus (ten pat, 215), Pžks (ten pat, 174), vok. Peck (M. Gottschald, 1954, p. 461), Pech, Peck, Pee(c)k (H. Bahlow, 1967, p. 375). Manoma, kad tai yra krikšto vardo Pėtras forma (žr. M. Gottschald, ten pat; H. Bahlow, ten pat; Z. Zinkevičius, 1977, p. 69).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Pekaš 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | 162 | 1 in 26K | 162 | Pekas | 20 |
| US United States | 128 | 1 in 2.6M | 143 | Pekas | 8 |
| CH Switzerland | 9 | 1 in 934K | 9 | — | 1 |
| RS Serbia | — | — | — | Pekas | 5 |
| PH Philippines | — | — | — | Pekas | 4 |
162 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Pekaš have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 162 people named Pekaš, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pekas.
- Where is Pekaš most common?
- Pekaš is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 26 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pekaš?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 162 people named Pekaš in 2021, about 1 in 26 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/peka%C5%A1The 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, “Pekaš”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.