Četnik
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Četnik is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Serbia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: chetnik (a member of a Serbian royalist army band or movement).
- HRCroatia1 in 249K(measured from records)
- RSSerbia≈1 in 56Kas Четник
- PLPoland1 in 19Mas Chetnik
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Četnik 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.
- Serbia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- 1 in 249K (inferred from the name graph)
≈120 named Четник, est.
recorded for this name
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 Cetnik in GB United Kingdom, US United States, IT Italy.
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)
chetnik (a member of a Serbian royalist army band or movement)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Četnik 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RS Serbia | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Četnik | 13 |
| HR Croatia | 17 | 1 in 249K | 21 | Četnik | 5 |
| PL Poland | 2as Chetnik | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | Cetnik | 8 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Cetnik | 5 |
| IT Italy | — | — | — | Cetnik | 4 |
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); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Četnik 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 English, Alternative spelling of chetnik.
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 21 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 17 | #25,179 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Četnik mean, and where does it come from?
- chetnik (a member of a Serbian royalist army band or movement) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Četnik have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 124 people named Четник in Serbia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Četnik most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Četnik is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 249 thousand people — even though Serbia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Četnik?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 17 people named Četnik in 2021, about 1 in 249 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Četnik?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C4%8DetnikThe 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, “Četnik”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.