Petek Family History
- Petek Name Meaning
- Slovenian and Croatian (northern Croatia): nickname from Slovenian (and Croatian dialect) peti ‘fifth’ or from petek ‘Friday’, perhaps denoting a child born as a fifth child or on a Friday, or (more probably) denoting an ill-fated person, because Friday was considered unlucky in the Middle Ages. This is a very frequent Slovenian surname. Hungarian: either a borrowing of the Slovenian name or from a pet form of the personal name Péter, Hungarian form of Peter.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 6,866 Historical Documents with Petek on Ancestry
- 3,441 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,273 Census and Voter Lists
- 575 Military Records
- 651 Immigration Records
- 926 Member Trees
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Number of Petek families
 5 - 7  2 - 4 |
 1  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Petek families
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6 - 10 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Petek census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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