Pekic
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Pekic is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 8K(measured from records)
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 8.6K
- MEMontenegro≈1 in 17K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 22 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.0K (inferred from the name graph)
531 people, 2021
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pekic 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 | 531 | 1 in 8K | 531 | Pekic | 22 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | — | Pekic | 6 |
| RS Serbia | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Pekic | 19 |
| US United States | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 3M | listed | Pekic | 17 |
| CH Switzerland | 38 | 1 in 221K | 38 | Pekic | 3 |
| ME Montenegro | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Pekic | 3 |
531 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021, counting the spelling pekić. 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); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Borislav Pekićb. 1930GBSerbian writer (1930–1992)
- Sofija Pekićb. 1953RSOlympic medalist in basketball
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 38 | #22,915 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- In which country does Pekic have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 531 people named Pekic, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pekic.
- Where is Pekic most common?
- Pekic is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 8.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pekic?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 531 people named Pekic in 2021, about 1 in 8.0 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/pekicThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Pekic”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.