Woźniak

surname · Latin script

Meaning: a male surname; one of the most popular surnames in Poland

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

Woźniak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country, where it is the 5th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 447(measured from records)
  • DEGermany≈1 in 37K
  • USUnited States1 in 39K

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)

85,616 people, 2026

Sources
344 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 447 (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Wozniak in US United States, PL Poland, GB United Kingdom and 3 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 popular surnames in Poland

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Woźniak 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 Woźniak is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland#585,6161 in 44743KWozniak156
US United States—8,5261 in 39K8.6KWozniak344
DE Germany—≈2,100 est.≈1 in 37K—Wozniak103
FR France—≈2,000 est.≈1 in 34K262Woźniak4
GB United Kingdom—≈1,700 est.≈1 in 39K422Wozniak110
NO Norway—4801 in 11K480Woźniak9
IE Ireland—≈280 est.≈1 in 18K—Wozniak22
DK Denmark—1921 in 31K192——
BZ Belize#22≈69 est.≈1 in 5.8K—Wozniak1

85,616 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026, counting the spelling woźniak. 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); 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)

Woźniak is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Wožniak, Wozniak, Wożniak

  • Turkish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Türkiye, Netherlands

    Also written Wozniak

  • Croatian surname16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Croatia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Wozniak, Wožniak, Wózniak, Вознијак, Voznijak

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Wozniak

  • Russian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Wozniak

28 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)

190019201940196019802000Artur Woźniak, b. 1913Steve Wozniak, b. 1950Ihor Vozniak, b. 1952Piotr Woźniak, b. 1956Elżbieta Woźniak, b. 1959Andrzej Woźniak, b. 1965Aleksandra Woźniak, b. 1975Aleksandra Wozniak, b. 1987Dagmara Wozniak, b. 1988Katarzyna Niedźwiedzka, b. 1989

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 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Woźniak
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202643K—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—43K#11
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202643K—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—43K#9

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 Woźniak mean, and where does it come from?
a male surname; one of the most popular surnames in Poland Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Woźniak have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 86 thousand people named Woźniak, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wozniak.
Where is Woźniak most common?
Woźniak is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 447 people carrying it.
How common is the name Woźniak?
In Poland, the national register counted 85,616 people named Woźniak in 2026, about 1 in 447 residents.
How common is Woźniak compared with other names?
In Poland, Woźniak is the 5th 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, “Woźniak” — the 5th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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