Stelmach
surname · Latin script
Meaning: wainwright
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈstɛɫmək/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Stelmach is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 4.3K(measured from records)
- IEIreland≈1 in 76K
- NONorway1 in 83K
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)
- Record sources
- 94 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
8,986 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)wainwright
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Stelmach 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 | #504 | 8,986 | 1 in 4.3K | 4.5K | Stelmach | 94 |
| US United States | — | 940 | 1 in 354K | 967 | Stelmach | 82 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 186K | 92 | Stelmach | 44 |
| BR Brazil | — | 304 | 1 in 696K | 304 | — | 1 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 311K | listed | — | 2 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 76K | — | Stelmach | 5 |
| DK Denmark | — | 66 | 1 in 89K | 66 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 66 | 1 in 83K | 66 | Stelmach | 2 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 100K | listed | — | 4 |
8,986 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); the dfa-band-3 register. 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)- Mykhailo Stelmakhb. 1912UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian writer and poet (1912–1983)
- Nahum Stelmachb. 1936ILIsraeli footballer (1936-1999)
- Volodymyr Stelmakhb. 1939UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian politician
- Bohdan Stelʹmakhb. 1943UAnot in their usual nameSoviet and Ukrainian writer, poet, playwright and translator
- Yaroslav Stelmakhb. 1949UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian writer (1949–2001)
- Ed Stelmachb. 1951CAPremier of Alberta, Canada, from 2006
- Jerzy Stelmachb. 1954PLPolish jurist, philosopher
- Krzysztof Stelmachb. 1967PLPolish sportsperson
- Andrzej Stelmachb. 1972PLPolish sportsperson
- Iryna Stelmakhb. 1993UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian handball player
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)27 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4.5K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4.5K | #453 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4.5K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4.5K | #441 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 967 | #24,288 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 940 | #26,067 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 911 | #27,931 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 304 | #26,108 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 92 | #34,906 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 66 | #21,691 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 66 | #8,241 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 3 | — | — | — |
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 Stelmach mean, and where does it come from?
- wainwright Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Stelmach?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈstɛɫmək/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Stelmach have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 9.0 thousand people named Stelmach, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stelmach.
- Where is Stelmach most common?
- Stelmach is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Stelmach?
- In Poland, the national register counted 8,986 people named Stelmach in 2026, about 1 in 4.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Stelmach compared with other names?
- In Poland, Stelmach is the 504th most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Stelmach?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/stelmachThe 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, “Stelmach” — the 504th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.