Petelin
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/petelin/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Petelin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 121K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 4.8K
- HRCroatia1 in 49K
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.
- Slovenia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 31 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.8K (inferred from the name graph)
441 people
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Petelin 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | 441 | 1 in 4.8K | 441 | Petelin | 4 |
| AR Argentina | 375 | 1 in 121K | 375 | Petelin | 31 |
| RU Russia | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 777K | — | Petelin | 4 |
| BR Brazil | 155 | 1 in 1.4M | 155 | Petelin | 29 |
| US United States | 112 | 1 in 3M | 122 | Petelin | 11 |
| IT Italy | ≈87 est. | ≈1 in 715K | — | Petelin | 5 |
| HR Croatia | 86 | 1 in 49K | 86 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 701K | listed | — | — |
441 people counted by stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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)
Petelin is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Slovenian, cock (male chicken)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Jacobus Gallusb. 1550SInot in their usual nameSlovenian Renaissance composer (1550–1591)
- Ruža Lucija Petelinb. 1906ITSlovene-Croatian poet, writer, director, teacher, and translator
- Stojan Petelinb. 1952SIresearcher
- Ana Petelinb. 1978SIresearcher
- Anatoly Petelinb. 1982RUbadminton player
- Dmitrij Petelinb. 1983RURussian cosmonaut (born 1983)
- Mitja Petelinb. 1984SIresearcher
- Katarina Petelinb. 1985SIresearcher
- Jan Petelinb. 1996LUcyclist
- Matevž PetelinSISlovenian researcher
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 20 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 441 | #746 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 375 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 155 | #45,135 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 122 | #140,525 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 122 | #128,797 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 112 | #147,253 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 86 | #8,946 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 66 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- How do you pronounce Petelin?
- A machine transcription gives /petelin/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Petelin have the most bearers?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted about 441 people named Petelin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled petelin.
- Where is Petelin most common?
- Petelin is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.8 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Petelin?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 441 people named Petelin, about 1 in 4.8 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Petelin?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/petelinThe 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, “Petelin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.