Putnik
surname · Latin script
Meaning: passenger
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021
/pûːtniːk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Putnik is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Serbia than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 10K(measured from records)
- RSSerbia≈1 in 9.8K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 37K
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.
- Serbia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 29 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈710 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Serbia, est.
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
(measured from records)passenger
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Putnik 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.
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); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); the ee-stat-nimed register. 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)- Tatjana Putnikb. 1946EEEstonian film personnel and photographer (1946-2012)
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 417 | #1,788 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 374 | — |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 28 | #3,928 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 23 | #4,700 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 19 | #13,947 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
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
- What does the name Putnik mean, and where does it come from?
- passenger Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Putnik?
- A machine transcription gives /pûːtniːk/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- In which country does Putnik have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 713 people named Putnik in Serbia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled putnik.
- How common is the name Putnik?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 417 people named Putnik in 2021, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
- How common is Putnik compared with other names?
- In Serbia, Putnik is the 899th most common surname of 45,065 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/putnikThe 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, “Putnik” — the 899th most common surname in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.