Wišniewski
surname · Latin script
Wišniewski is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country, where it is the 11th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Polish Wiśniewski.
- PLPoland1 in 718(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 26K
- DEGermany≈1 in 27K
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)
- Sources
- 366 (measured from records)
- 1 in 718 (inferred from the name graph)
53,282 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
2 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Wisniewski in US United States, PL Poland, GB United Kingdom and 5 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)
Borrowed from Polish Wiśniewski.
Sources 1
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wišniewski 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 | #11 | 53,282 | 1 in 718 | 53K | Wisniewski | 146 |
| CN China | — | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Wisniewski | 3 |
| US United States | — | 12,675 | 1 in 26K | 13K | Wisniewski | 366 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Wisniewski | 114 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 39K | 562 | Wisniewski | 105 |
| NO Norway | — | 480 | 1 in 11K | 480 | Wisniewski | 9 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Wisniewski | 15 |
| FI Finland | — | 225 | 1 in 25K | 225 | — | 4 |
| BZ Belize | #15 | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Wisniewski | 1 |
53,282 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026, counting the spelling wiśniewski. 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); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Wišniewski mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Polish Wiśniewski. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Wišniewski have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 53 thousand people named Wišniewski, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wisniewski.
- Where is Wišniewski most common?
- Wišniewski is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 718 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Wišniewski?
- In Poland, the national register counted 53,282 people named Wišniewski in 2026, about 1 in 718 residents.
- How common is Wišniewski compared with other names?
- In Poland, Wišniewski is the 11th 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/wi%C5%A1niewskiThe 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, “Wišniewski” — the 11th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.