Ponikvar
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pənɪkvɑɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ponikvar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country.
- SISlovenia1 in 5K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 169K
- USUnited States1 in 2M
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.
- Slovenia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 19 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.0K (inferred from the name graph)
422 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
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 in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ponikvar 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 | #687 | 422 | 1 in 5K | 422 | Ponikvar | 19 |
| US United States | — | 170 | 1 in 2M | 171 | Ponikvar | 17 |
| HR Croatia | — | 25 | 1 in 169K | 25 | Ponikvar | 11 |
422 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: stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; 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)
- Barbara Mihevc Ponikvarb. 1973SIresearcher
- Igor Ponikvarb. 1978SIresearcher
- Michael Ponikvarb. 1979CACanadian track and field high jumper
- Klemen Ponikvarb. 1981SIresearcher
- Matija PonikvarSIresearcher
- Rafael PonikvarSIresearcher
- Jadranka Buturović-PonikvarSIresearcher
- Dušan PonikvarSISlovene physicist
- Nina PonikvarSISlovenian economist
- Andrej PonikvarSIresearcher
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 10 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 422 | #807 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 171 | #98,298 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 170 | #105,079 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 161 | #115,151 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 25 | #20,236 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 17 | — |
| 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
- 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
- How do you pronounce Ponikvar?
- A machine transcription gives /pənɪkvɑɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ponikvar have the most bearers?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted about 422 people named Ponikvar, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ponikvar.
- Where is Ponikvar most common?
- Ponikvar is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ponikvar?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 422 people named Ponikvar, about 1 in 5.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Ponikvar compared with other names?
- In Slovenia, Ponikvar is the 687th most common surname of 13,062 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ponikvar?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ponikvarThe 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, “Ponikvar” — the 687th most common surname in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.