Szymański
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a male surname; one of the most common surnames in Poland (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ʂɘˈmaɲ.ski/(recorded in a dictionary) Polish · from Wiktionary
Szymański is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country: 42,571 people, counted by dane.gov.pl in 2026, which ranks it 10th.
- PLPoland1 in 899(measured from records)
- BZBelize≈1 in 2.6Kfew records
- NONorway1 in 17K
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
- 361 (measured from records)
- 1 in 899 (inferred from the name graph)
42,571 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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.
How to pronounce Szymański
- Polish:/ʂɘˈmaɲ.ski/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a male surname; one of the most common surnames in Poland
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Szymański is found
(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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #19 | 42,571 | 1 in 899 | 42K | Szymanski | 132 |
| US United States | — | 8,748 | 1 in 38K | 8.8K | Szymanski | 361 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Szymanski | 120 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 40K | 191 | Szymański | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 66K | 402 | Szymanski | 91 |
| NO Norway | — | 330 | 1 in 17K | 330 | Szymanski | 9 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Szymanski | 11 |
| BZ Belize | #7 | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Szymanski | 3 |
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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Pavel Szymanskib. 1954PLPolish composer
- Damian Szymańskib. 1995PLPolish association football player
- Sebastian Szymańskib. 1999PLPolish association football player
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.
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).
- How do you pronounce Szymański?
- In Polish /ʂɘˈmaɲ.ski/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Szymański?
- 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. After it come United States, Germany, France and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/szyma%C5%84skiThe 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, “Szymański” — ranked 10th in Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.