Kanárek
surname · Latin script
Kanárek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from Polish kanarek ‘canary’, hence a nickname for someone thought to resemble the bird in some way, for example with cheerful singing, or, among Jews, an ornamental name.
- PLPoland1 in 37K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 761K
- BEBelgium1 in 1.2M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 22 (measured from records)
- 1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)
1,022 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)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kanarek in US United States, CZ Czechia.
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 Polish kanarek ‘canary’, hence a nickname for someone thought to resemble the bird in some way, for example with cheerful singing, or, among Jews, an ornamental name.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kanárek 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 | 1,022 | 1 in 37K | 526 | — | — |
| US United States | 437 | 1 in 761K | 525 | Kanarek | 22 |
| BR Brazil | 167 | 1 in 1.3M | 167 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 10 | 1 in 1.2M | 10 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 2 | 1 in 5.4M | 2 | Kanarek | 6 |
1,022 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kanárek mean, and where does it come from?
- from Polish kanarek ‘canary’, hence a nickname for someone thought to resemble the bird in some way, for example with cheerful singing, or, among Jews, an ornamental name. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Kanárek have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Kanárek, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kanárek most common?
- Kanárek is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 37 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kanárek?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,022 people named Kanárek in 2026, about 1 in 37 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kan%C3%A1rekThe 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, “Kanárek”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.