Zagórski
surname · Latin script
/zaɡurskʲi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zagórski is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Zagóra or Zagórze (placenames) + -ski; from za + góra.
- USUnited States1 in 229K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 9.4K
- CUCuba≈1 in 110K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 237 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,000 people, est.
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 Zagorski in US United States, PL Poland, GB United Kingdom and 6 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 Zagóra or Zagórze (placenames) + -ski; from za + góra.
Sources 1
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zagórski 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 232K | — | Zagorski | 2 |
| PL Poland | 4,084 | 1 in 9.4K | 4.1K | Zagorski | 4 |
| US United States | 1,450 | 1 in 229K | 1.4K | Zagorski | 237 |
| DE Germany | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 278K | — | Zagorski | 59 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 367K | 67 | Zagorski | 45 |
| CU Cuba | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 110K | — | Zagorski | 1 |
| SG Singapore | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 203K | — | Zagorski | 1 |
| IE Ireland | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 182K | — | Zagorski | 6 |
| UY Uruguay | 17 | 1 in 199K | 17 | Zagorski | 3 |
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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
- Ignacy Zagórskib. 1788PLPolish historian
- Włodzimierz Zagórskib. 1834UAwriter, satirist
- Albin Zagórskib. 1846UAPolish architect
- Roman Zagórskib. 1875UAPolish psychiatrist
- Włodzimierz Zagórskib. 1882PLgeneral
- Jerzy Zagórskib. 1907PLpoet, essayist, translator (1907–1984)
- Wacław Zagórskib. 1909PLPolish lawyer and journalist (1909–1982)
- Wojciech Zagórskib. 1928PLPolish actor (1928–2016)
- Witold Zagórskib. 1930PLbasketball player and coach (1930-2016)
- Marek Zagórskib. 1967PLPolish politician and deputy
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)
Attested in 8 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4.1K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4.1K | #513 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 23 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 23 | #83,787 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Zagórski mean, and where does it come from?
- From Zagóra or Zagórze (placenames) + -ski; from za + góra. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Zagórski?
- A machine transcription gives /zaɡurskʲi/ (IPA) for Polish.
- In which country does Zagórski have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.0 thousand people named Zagórski in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zagorski.
- Where is Zagórski most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zagórski is densest in Poland — about 1 in 9.4 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Zagórski?
- In Poland, the national register counted 4,084 people named Zagórski in 2026, about 1 in 9.4 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Zagórski?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zag%C3%B3rskiThe 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, “Zagórski”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.