Motýl
surname · Latin script
Meaning: butterfly
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Motýl is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 8.9K(measured from records)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 53Kas Мотиль
- RURussia≈1 in 525Kas Мотыль
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Motýl itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 92 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.9K (inferred from the name graph)
4,287 people, 2026
recorded for this name
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 Motyl in PL Poland, US United States, CZ Czechia and 2 more, Мотыль in RU Russia, BY Belarus and Мотиль in UA Ukraine.
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)butterfly
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Motýl 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 | 4,287 | 1 in 8.9K | 2.2K | Motyl | 79 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Мотиль | 30 |
| US United States | 353 | 1 in 942K | 370 | Motyl | 33 |
| RU Russia | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 525K | — | Мотыль | 92 |
| FR France | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 421K | 26 | Motyl | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈92 est. | ≈1 in 188K | — | Motyl | 6 |
| BY Belarus | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 118K | 1 | Мотыль | 9 |
| CZ Czechia | 54 | 1 in 198K | 54 | Motyl | 15 |
4,287 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 2000; MVČR — living population register 2017; Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); 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)- Petr Motýlb. 1964CZCzech poet and playwright
- Martin Motýlb. 1972CZCzech composer, guitarist, lyricist and singer
- Jindřich Motýlb. 1973CZCzech film producer
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 54 | #27,692 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Motýl mean, and where does it come from?
- butterfly Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Motýl have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 4.3 thousand people named Motýl, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled motyl.
- Where is Motýl most common?
- Motýl is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 8.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Motýl?
- In Poland, the national register counted 4,287 people named Motýl in 2026, about 1 in 8.9 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mot%C3%BDlThe 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, “Motýl”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.