Potoku
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pɔtˈɔku/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Potoku is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 142K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 355K
- NONorway1 in 781K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Potoku itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 32 (measured from records)
- 1 in 142K (inferred from the name graph)
857 named Potok, 2026
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Potoku 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 857as Potok | 1 in 45K | 434 | — | — |
| US United States | 246as Potok | 1 in 1.4M | 256 | — | 11 |
| CH Switzerland | 59 | 1 in 142K | 59 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 33 | 1 in 355K | 33 | Potoku | 4 |
| NO Norway | 7 | 1 in 781K | 7 | — | — |
857 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Potoku 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 Polish, vocative/locative/genitive singular of potok
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 59 | #16,414 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 33 | #34,851 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 7 | #64,606 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #283,341 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Potoku?
- A machine transcription gives /pɔtˈɔku/ (IPA) for Albanian.
- In which country does Potoku have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 857 people named Potok, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Potoku most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Potoku is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 142 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Potoku?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 59 people named Potoku in 2024, about 1 in 142 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Potoku?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/potokuThe 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, “Potoku”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.