Rózga

surname · Latin script

Meaning: rod (twig without leaves)

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

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

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 36K(measured from records)
  • PLPoland1 in 37K
  • USUnited States1 in 1.6M

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)

1,042 people, 2026

Sources
28 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 36K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

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 Rozga in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada.

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)

rod (twig without leaves)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Rózga 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 Rózga is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland1,0421 in 37K522Rózga28
US United States2061 in 1.6M206Rozga20
HR Croatia1161 in 36K116——
GB United Kingdom≈29 est.≈1 in 2.3M22Rozga13
AR Argentina211 in 2.2M21—1
CA Canada≈17 est.≈1 in 2.2M—Rozga3

1,042 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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)

Rózga is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Rozga

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Rozga

  • Croatian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States

    Also written Rozga, Розга

  • English surname8 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Rozga

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)

Rózga 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 Serbo-Croatian, 1° pritká, trklja, vrljika, stuba, palica, oštroga; 2° ljestve; 3° sarmentum, propago; 4° trstika; 5° suho granje; 6° palmes; mjera za dužinu

    as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

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)

190019201940196019802000Wacław Rózga, b. 1911Leszek Rózga, b. 1924Marta Rózga, b. 1991

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 Rózga, (English)
InformalSzanowni Państwo,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 5 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Rózga
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026522—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—522#6,124
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026520—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—520#6,297

Reference works 3

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 Rózga mean, and where does it come from?
rod (twig without leaves) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Rózga?
A machine transcription gives /ruzɡa/ (IPA) for Polish.
In which country does Rózga have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Rózga, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rózga.
Where is Rózga most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rózga is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 36 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Rózga?
In Poland, the national register counted 1,042 people named Rózga in 2026, about 1 in 37 thousand residents.

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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, “Rózga”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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