Smolen

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Smolen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Polish Smoleń.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 201K(measured from records)
  • PLPoland1 in 6.6K
  • IEIreland≈1 in 88K

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)

5,790 people, 2026

Sources
244 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 6.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From Polish Smoleń.

Sources 1

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Smolen 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 Smolen is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland5,7901 in 6.6K2.9K—2
US United States1,6551 in 201K1.7KSmolen244
IT Italy≈320 est.≈1 in 193K—Smolen2
DE Germany≈200 est.≈1 in 397K—Smolen44
GB United Kingdom≈170 est.≈1 in 383K57Smolen59
CZ Czechia921 in 116K92——
IE Ireland≈59 est.≈1 in 88K—Smolen9
NO Norway521 in 105K52—2
JM Jamaica≈29 est.≈1 in 95K—Smolen1

5,790 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); MVČR — living population register 2017; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)

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

  • Polish surname15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Ukraine, United States, Slovakia

    Languages: Polish, Ukrainian, Russian

    Also written Смолень, Смолен, Smoleň, Smoleń

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Smoleń

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Argentina, Panama

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Smoleñ, Smoleń

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Smoleń

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Smoleń

  • Swahili surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Smoleń

  • Croatian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Smoleń

25 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)

  • Mike Smolenb. 1940USAmerican contract bridge player (1940-1992)
  • Josef S Smolenb. 1950ATprofessor of Internal Medicine and chairman of the Division of Rheumatology and Department of Medicine at the Medical University of Vienna
  • Andrew Smolenresearcher

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 23 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Smolen
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.7K#17,131
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.5K#16,984
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.4K#19,340
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—92#17,979
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—91#8,088
GB United KingdomSurnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register)200257#46,925
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—52#25,228
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20267—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—7#171,183
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20264—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—4#238,841
GB United KingdomBBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names———

Reference works 3

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 Smolen mean, and where does it come from?
From Polish Smoleń. Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Smolen have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 5.8 thousand people named Smolen, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Smolen most common?
Smolen is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.6 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Smolen?
In Poland, the national register counted 5,790 people named Smolen in 2026, about 1 in 6.6 thousand residents.

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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, “Smolen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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