Szymański

surname · Latin script

Szymański is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country, where it is the 19th most common surname. Recorded meaning: a male surname; one of the most common surnames in Poland.

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 899(measured from records)
  • DEGermany≈1 in 28K
  • USUnited States1 in 38K

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)

42,571 people, 2026

Sources
361 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 899 (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Szymanski in US United States, PL Poland, DE Germany and 4 more.

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 male surname; one of the most common surnames in Poland

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Szymański 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 Szymański is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland#1942,5711 in 89942KSzymanski132
US United States—8,7481 in 38K8.8KSzymanski361
DE Germany—≈2,900 est.≈1 in 28K—Szymanski120
FR France—≈1,700 est.≈1 in 40K191Szymański3
GB United Kingdom—≈1,100 est.≈1 in 59K402Szymanski91
NO Norway—3301 in 17K330Szymanski9
IE Ireland—≈180 est.≈1 in 29K—Szymanski11
BZ Belize#7≈150 est.≈1 in 2.7K—Szymanski3

42,571 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026, counting the spelling szymański. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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)

Szymański is also recorded as 5 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 Szymanski

  • Croatian surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Croatia

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Szymanski, Szymañski

  • Russian surname35 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, United States, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, English

    Also written Шиманский, Шиманський, Shimansky, Shimanskij, Szymanski

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Szymanski

  • Danish surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Denmark, Sweden, Norway

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Szymanski, Szymañski

23 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18501900195020002050Julian Szymański, b. 1870Antoni Szymański, b. 1894Zdzisław Szymański, b. 1914Pavel Szymanski, b. 1954Michał Szymański, b. 1959Konrad Szymański, b. 1969Jan Szymański, b. 1989Damian Szymański, b. 1995Sebastian Szymański, b. 1999Jakub Szymański, b. 2002

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)

Attested in 9 sources across 3 countries.

Reference works 5

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 Szymański mean, and where does it come from?
a male surname; one of the most common surnames in Poland Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Szymański have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 43 thousand people named Szymański, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled szymanski.
Where is Szymański most common?
Szymański is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 899 people carrying it.
How common is the name Szymański?
In Poland, the national register counted 42,571 people named Szymański in 2026, about 1 in 899 residents.
How common is Szymański compared with other names?
In Poland, Szymański is the 19th 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, “Szymański” — the 19th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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