Kędzior

surname · Latin script

/kɛɲd͡ʑɔr/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Kędzior is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From kędzior (“lock of hair”).

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 6.2K(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 50K
  • DKDenmark1 in 326K

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)

6,131 people, 2026

Sources
61 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 6.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Kedzior in PL Poland, US United States, NO Norway 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)

From kędzior (“lock of hair”).

Sources 1

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kędzior 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 Kędzior is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland#7526,1311 in 6.2K3.1KKedzior61
US United States—3611 in 921K363Kedzior55
NO Norway—1101 in 50K110Kedzior5
IT Italy—≈98 est.≈1 in 637K—Kedzior5
GB United Kingdom—≈83 est.≈1 in 791K—Kedzior25
CZ Czechia—211 in 510K21Kedzior8
DK Denmark—181 in 326K18——

6,131 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026, counting the spelling kędzior. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); MVČR — living population register 2017; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

Kędzior is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Kedzior

  • Hebrew surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United Kingdom

    Also written Kedzior

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Kedzior

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Brazil, El Salvador

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Kedzior

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States

    Also written Kedzior

  • Swahili surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Kedzior

  • Danish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark

    Also written Kedzior

9 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Andrzej Kędzior, b. 1851Aleksander Kędzior, b. 1897Krzysztof Kędzior, b. 1940Zofia Kędzior, b. 1950Anna Kędzior, b. 1977

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)

FormalSzanowni Państwo,Dear Kędzior, (English)
InformalSzanowni Państwo,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Kędzior
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20263.1K—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—3.1K#757
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20263K—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—3K#798
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—21#51,507

Reference works 5

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 Kędzior mean, and where does it come from?
From kędzior (“lock of hair”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Kędzior?
A machine transcription gives /kɛɲd͡ʑɔr/ (IPA) for Polish.
In which country does Kędzior have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 6.1 thousand people named Kędzior, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kedzior.
Where is Kędzior most common?
Kędzior is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.2 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Kędzior?
In Poland, the national register counted 6,131 people named Kędzior in 2026, about 1 in 6.2 thousand residents.
How common is Kędzior compared with other names?
In Poland, Kędzior is the 752nd most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Kędzior” — the 752nd most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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