Želinski

surname · Latin script

Želinski is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

  • BRBrazil1 in 371K(measured from records)
  • PLPoland1 in 2M
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M

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.

United States (measured from records)

1,422 people, 2010

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
10 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 234K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
ŽelinskiLatin(measured from records)
ЗелинскиCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Zelinski in US United States.

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 across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Želinski 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.

Where Želinski is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,4221 in 234K1.4KZelinski7
BR Brazil5711 in 371K571——
PL Poland191 in 2M16——
HR Croatia171 in 249K23Želinski10
BE Belgium31 in 3.9M3——
CH Switzerland31 in 2.8M3——

1,422 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Želinski is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Estonian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Estonia

    Languages: Estonian, Finnish

    Also written Zelinski

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Zelinski, Żeliński, Zeliński

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Želinski
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202123—
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202117#25,169

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Želinski have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Želinski, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zelinski.
Where is Želinski most common?
Želinski is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 234 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Želinski?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,422 people named Želinski in 2010, about 1 in 234 thousand residents.

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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, “Želinski”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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