Zalewska
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/zalɛfska/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zalewska is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From zalew + -ska (surname-forming suffix).
- PLPoland1 in 2K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 161K
- SESweden1 in 208K
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
- 117 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
19,328 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From zalew + -ska (surname-forming suffix).
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zalewska 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 | #125 | 19,328 | 1 in 2K | 19K | Zalewska | 117 |
| US United States | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | listed | Zalewska | 90 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 505K | 36 | Zalewska | 55 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 875K | — | Zalewska | 8 |
| BE Belgium | — | 50 | 1 in 234K | 50 | Zalewska | 7 |
| SE Sweden | — | 49 | 1 in 208K | 49 | Zalewska | 8 |
| NO Norway | — | 34 | 1 in 161K | 34 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | — | 27 | 1 in 217K | 27 | — | — |
19,328 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Zofia Zalewskab. 1903PLPolish palaebotanist
- Wanda Zalewskab. 1914PLPolish agricultural engineer, awarded the Righteous Among the Nations medal
- Halina Zalewskab. 1940ITItalian actress (1940-1976)
- Agnieszka Zalewskab. 1948PLPolish physicist
- Hanna Zalewska-Jurab. 1962PLPolish historian
- Anna Zalewskab. 1965PLPolish politician
- Joanna Zalewska-Gałoszb. 1972PLPolish botanist
- Agnieszka Zalewskab. 2000PLPolish journalist
- Renata Zalewskab. 2000PLPolish ophthalmologist
- Anna ZalewskaPLPolish researcher
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 15 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 19K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 19K | #48 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 50 | #26,163 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 49 | #12,859 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 36 | #62,359 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 34 | #33,148 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 27 | #18,293 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Zalewska mean, and where does it come from?
- From zalew + -ska (surname-forming suffix). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Zalewska?
- A machine transcription gives /zalɛfska/ (IPA) for Polish.
- In which country does Zalewska have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 19 thousand people named Zalewska, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zalewska.
- Where is Zalewska most common?
- Zalewska is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Zalewska?
- In Poland, the national register counted 19,328 people named Zalewska in 2026, about 1 in 2.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Zalewska compared with other names?
- In Poland, Zalewska is the 125th most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Zalewska?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zalewskaThe 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, “Zalewska” — the 125th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.