Podgorski

surname · Latin script

Meaning: lived at the foot of a hill, from the elements pod under + gora hill, mountain + -ski, suffix of local surnames (see Baranowski)

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

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

Podgorski is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 5.9K(measured from records)
  • HRCroatia1 in 19K
  • NONorway1 in 78K

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)

6,531 people, 2026

Sources
76 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 5.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Podgórski in PL Poland, FR France.

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)

lived at the foot of a hill, from the elements pod under + gora hill, mountain + -ski, suffix of local surnames (see Baranowski).

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Podgorski 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 Podgorski is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland#6656,5311 in 5.9K6.5KPodgórski76
US United States—1,1361 in 293K1.1KPodgorski72
HR Croatia—2271 in 19K227——
GB United Kingdom—≈220 est.≈1 in 294K75Podgorski36
FR France—≈220 est.≈1 in 312K23Podgórski1
NO Norway—701 in 78K70Podgorski5
IE Ireland—≈35 est.≈1 in 146K—Podgorski8
EE Estonia—≈11 est.≈1 in 117Klisted——

6,531 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; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Podgorski is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname8 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Podgórski, Podgòrski, Podgorskì

  • Croatian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Bulgaria, United States, Netherlands

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Подгорски, Podgórski

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Canada

    Also written Podgórski

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Brazil, United Kingdom

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Podgórski

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Podgórski

  • Danish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Denmark

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish

    Also written Podgórski

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Podgórski

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Egypt

    Also written Podgórski

29 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Podgorski is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Polish, name is found mainly in the Meuse and Champagne regions.

    as a nameA dictionary of surnames

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

188019001920194019601980Vika Podgorska, b. 1898Franz Podgorski, b. 1913Thaddäus Podgorski, b. 1935Jacek Podgorski, b. 1966

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)

FormalDear Podgorski,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 27 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Podgorski
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.1K#22,608
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.1K#24,007
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.1K#22,384
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)2021227#3,659
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)2021166—
GB United KingdomSurnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register)200275#39,660
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—70#20,435
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195151—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198137—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197136—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)193130—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194126—

Reference works 4

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 Podgorski mean, and where does it come from?
lived at the foot of a hill, from the elements pod under + gora hill, mountain + -ski, suffix of local surnames (see Baranowski). Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
How do you pronounce Podgorski?
A machine transcription gives /pɑˈdʒɔɹski/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Podgorski have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 6.5 thousand people named Podgorski, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled podgórski.
Where is Podgorski most common?
Podgorski is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.9 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Podgorski?
In Poland, the national register counted 6,531 people named Podgorski in 2026, about 1 in 5.9 thousand residents.
How common is Podgorski compared with other names?
In Poland, Podgorski is the 665th 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, “Podgorski” — the 665th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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