Drożdż
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/drɔʂt͡ʂ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Drożdż is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Habitation name: Pol.: Drozdowski. Drinan see Drennan 181 Dufresnoy Dunham Dufresnoy see Frain Dumke see Thomas Dufty see Doughty Dummann see Thumb Dugage see Gage Dumont see Mont Dugald see Dougall.
- PLPoland1 in 6.7K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 88K
- IEIreland≈1 in 250K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 75 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.7K (inferred from the name graph)
5,681 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Drozdz in PL Poland, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 3 more.
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)Habitation name: Pol.: Drozdowski. Drinan see Drennan 181 Dufresnoy Dunham Dufresnoy see Frain Dumke see Thomas Dufty see Doughty Dummann see Thumb Dugage see Gage Dumont see Mont Dugald see Dougall
Cited for this meaning 2
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Drożdż 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #429 | 5,681 | 1 in 6.7K | 2.9K | Drozdz | 73 |
| US United States | — | 224 | 1 in 1.5M | 224 | Drozdz | 75 |
| FR France | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 402K | 12 | Drożdż | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 823K | listed | Drozdz | 32 |
| NO Norway | — | 62 | 1 in 88K | 62 | Drozdz | 6 |
| SE Sweden | — | 37 | 1 in 276K | 37 | Drozdz | 10 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 250K | — | Drozdz | 9 |
5,681 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026, counting the spelling drożdż. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)- Ludwik Drożdżb. 1918PLPolish politician (1918-2012)
- Bohdan Drożdżb. 1926PLPolish chemist (1926-2009)
- Alojzy Drożdżb. 1950PLPolish Catholic clergyman and theologian (1950–2019)
- Stanisław Drożdżb. 1954PLPolish physicist
- Michał Drożdżb. 1958PLRoman Catholic priest, theologian, journalist
- Bogusław Adam Drożdżb. 1963PLPolish teacher
- Krzysztof DrożdżPLPolish cyclist
- Jarosław DrożdżPLPolish cardiologist
- Dorota DrożdżPLPolish pediatric nephrologist
- Mieczysław DrożdżPLPolish engineer
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2.9K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2.9K | #823 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2.8K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2.8K | #865 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Drożdż mean, and where does it come from?
- Habitation name: Pol.: Drozdowski. Drinan see Drennan 181 Dufresnoy Dunham Dufresnoy see Frain Dumke see Thomas Dufty see Doughty Dummann see Thumb Dugage see Gage Dumont see Mont Dugald see Dougall Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Drożdż?
- A machine transcription gives /drɔʂt͡ʂ/ (IPA) for Polish.
- In which country does Drożdż have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 5.7 thousand people named Drożdż, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled drozdz.
- Where is Drożdż most common?
- Drożdż is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Drożdż?
- In Poland, the national register counted 5,681 people named Drożdż in 2026, about 1 in 6.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Drożdż compared with other names?
- In Poland, Drożdż is the 429th most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dro%C5%BCd%C5%BCThe 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, “Drożdż” — the 429th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.