Pirc
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/pìːrt͡s/(recorded in a dictionary) Slovenian · from Wiktionary
Pirc is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country: 1,933 people, counted by stat.si Imena rojstva, which ranks it 38th.
- SISlovenia1 in 1.1K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 29K
- BEBelgium1 in 391K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Slovenia (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 47 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
1,933 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Pirc
- Slovenian:/pìːrt͡s/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)1U subst. ard. negura groasa" ; tap" (Tiktin); cf. alb. pdra. tap". 1. Ioan, olt. ; -I (Bal I). 2. Parciul (17 B IV 133) ; Parciul, Mulat (17 B III 135). 3. Parce (Sd XVI) ; -a (17 B I 172). 4. Parcica, Pavel (Sur XI). 5. Ptrcea tig. (16 B V 19). 6. Plrcd (17 B II 77). 7. Cf. Percea act.; Percean, Onciu, munt. (Sd VII 274) ; Percicd, P., mold. 1666. Pirdesti v. P a r d 4.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Where the surname Pirc is found
(measured from records)Pirc 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 | #52 | 1,933 | 1 in 1.1K | 1.9K | Pirc | 47 |
| US United States | — | 245 | 1 in 1.4M | 245 | Pirc | 31 |
| HR Croatia | — | 146 | 1 in 29K | 146 | Pirc | 26 |
| BE Belgium | — | 30 | 1 in 391K | 30 | — | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 17 | 1 in 494K | 17 | Pirc | 6 |
1,933 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); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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)- Francis Xavier Pierzb. 1785USnot in their usual nameAmerican-Slovenian writer and priest (1785–1880)
- Vasja Pircb. 1907SISlovenian chess player (1907–1980)
- Nataša Pirc Musarb. 1968SIPresident of Slovenia since 2022
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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Pirc?
- In Slovenian /pìːrt͡s/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Pirc?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Pirc, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pirc. After it come United States, Croatia, Belgium and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Pirc most common?
- Pirc is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pirc?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 1,933 people named Pirc, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Pirc compared with other names?
- In Slovenia, Pirc is the 52nd most common surname of 13,062 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pircThe 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, “Pirc” — ranked 38th in Slovenia (stat.si Imena rojstva). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.