Prusik
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A type of friction hitch
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pɹʌsɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Prusik is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 443Kas Прусік(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 19K
- CZCzechia1 in 223K
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 Prusik 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 60 (measured from records)
- 1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,400 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Прусік in UA Ukraine and Прусик in CN China.
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)
A type of friction hitch.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Prusik 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.
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. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Prusik 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 Finnish, prusik (hitch)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Bořivoj Prusíkb. 1872CZCzech translator (1872–1928)
- Karl Prusikb. 1896ATAustrian mountain climber and inventor of the Prusik knot (1896–1961)
- Waldemar Prusikb. 1961PLPolish association football player
- Piotr Prusikb. 1968PLPolish sportsperson and athletics competitor
- Krystian PrusikPLPolish materials engineer, University of Silesia
- Magdalena PrusikPolish veterinary scientist
- Krzysztof Prusikresearcher (ORCID 0000-0001-7534-675X)
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)
Attested in 11 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 993 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 993 | #3,126 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 980 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 980 | #3,089 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 206 | #84,631 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 199 | #92,358 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 195 | #99,304 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Prusik mean, and where does it come from?
- A type of friction hitch. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Prusik?
- A machine transcription gives /pɹʌsɪk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Prusik have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 thousand people named Prusik in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled прусик.
- Where is Prusik most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Prusik is densest in Poland — about 1 in 19 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Prusik?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,973 people named Prusik in 2026, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/prusikThe 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, “Prusik”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.