Wiśniewska

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Wiśniewska is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country, where it is the 23rd most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Wiśniewo, Wiśniew, or Wiśniewa + -ska (surname-forming suffix). Place names from wiśnia (“cherry”).

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 707(measured from records)
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 198K
  • NONorway1 in 23K

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)

54,177 people, 2026

Sources
121 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 707 (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 Wisniewska in PL Poland, GB United Kingdom, 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)

From Wiśniewo, Wiśniew, or Wiśniewa + -ska (surname-forming suffix). Place names from wiśnia (“cherry”).

Sources 1

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Wiśniewska 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 Wiśniewska is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland#2354,1771 in 70754KWisniewska116
GB United Kingdom—≈330 est.≈1 in 198K132Wisniewska64
DE Germany—≈270 est.≈1 in 296K—Wisniewska57
NO Norway—2341 in 23K234Wisniewska12
IT Italy—≈150 est.≈1 in 422K—Wisniewska10
SE Sweden—1341 in 76K134Wisniewska16
DK Denmark—501 in 117K50——
IE Ireland—≈35 est.≈1 in 146K—Wisniewska11

54,177 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026, counting the spelling wiśniewska. 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); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

Wiśniewska is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Wišniewska, Wisniewska

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, United Kingdom, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Wisniewska

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Wisniewska

  • Turkish name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Wisniewska

  • Russian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kyrgyzstan

    Also written Wisniewska, Вішнеўская, Вішнеуская

  • Croatian name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Wisniewska

  • Danish surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Sweden, Norway

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Wisniewska

20 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)

1940196019802000Ewa Wiśniewska, b. 1942Aga Wińska, b. 1964Iwona Wiśniewska, b. 1975Olimpia Bartosik-Wiśniewska, b. 1976Aleksandra Uznańska-Wiśniewska, b. 1994Helena Wiśniewska, b. 1999

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 8 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Wiśniewska
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026——

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Wiśniewska mean, and where does it come from?
From Wiśniewo, Wiśniew, or Wiśniewa + -ska (surname-forming suffix). Place names from wiśnia (“cherry”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Wiśniewska have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 54 thousand people named Wiśniewska, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wisniewska.
Where is Wiśniewska most common?
Wiśniewska is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 707 people carrying it.
How common is the name Wiśniewska?
In Poland, the national register counted 54,177 people named Wiśniewska in 2026, about 1 in 707 residents.
How common is Wiśniewska compared with other names?
In Poland, Wiśniewska is the 23rd 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, “Wiśniewska” — the 23rd most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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