Słowik
surname · Latin script
Meaning: nightingale
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/swɔvik/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Słowik is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 3.2K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 513K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 701K
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)
- Record sources
- 46 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)
12,133 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)nightingale
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Słowik 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 | #703 | 12,133 | 1 in 3.2K | 6.1K | Słowik | 46 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 513K | — | Słowik | 3 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 13 | 1 in 823K | 13 | — | — |
| DE Germany | — | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 7.8M | — | Słowik | 15 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 9.1M | — | Słowik | 9 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 856K | — | Słowik | 2 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 701K | listed | — | 2 |
12,133 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); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Andrzej Słowikb. 1949PLPolish chauffeur, trade unionist, politician
- Grzegorz Słowikb. 1986PLPolish physicist
- Dominika Słowikb. 1988PLPolish writer
- Patryk Słowikb. 1988PLPolish journalist
- Olga Słowikb. 1990PLPolish translator, bohemicist
- Jakub Słowikb. 1991PLPolish association football player
- Olga SłowikPLPolish Righteous Among the Nations
- Agnieszka SłowikPLPolish neurologist
- Magdalena Słowik-BorowiecPLPolish agronomist
- Magdalena Dumańska-SłowikPLPolish mineralogist
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6.1K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6.1K | #299 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6K | #301 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 13 | #69,183 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Słowik mean, and where does it come from?
- nightingale Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Słowik?
- A machine transcription gives /swɔvik/ (IPA) for Polish.
- In which country does Słowik have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Słowik, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled słowik.
- Where is Słowik most common?
- Słowik is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Słowik?
- In Poland, the national register counted 12,133 people named Słowik in 2026, about 1 in 3.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Słowik compared with other names?
- In Poland, Słowik is the 703rd most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C5%82owikThe 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, “Słowik” — the 703rd most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.