Wisniewska
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/vʲis̪ɲɛfska/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wisniewska is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country, where it is the 23rd most common surname.
- PLPoland1 in 707(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 198K
- NONorway1 in 23K
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
- 121 (measured from records)
- 1 in 707 (inferred from the name graph)
54,177 people, 2026
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:
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wisniewska 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 | #23 | 54,177 | 1 in 707 | 54K | Wisniewska | 116 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 198K | 132 | Wisniewska | 64 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 296K | — | Wisniewska | 57 |
| NO Norway | — | 234 | 1 in 23K | 234 | Wisniewska | 12 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 422K | — | Wisniewska | 10 |
| SE Sweden | — | 134 | 1 in 76K | 134 | Wisniewska | 16 |
| DK Denmark | — | 50 | 1 in 117K | 50 | — | — |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 146K | — | Wisniewska | 11 |
54,177 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026, counting the spelling wiśniewska. 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); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Wisniewska is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A transliteration of the Polish surname Wiśniewska.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Karolina Wisniewskab. 1976CACanadian Para-alpine standing skier
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 21 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 234 | #6,691 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 134 | #5,731 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 132 | #27,803 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 86 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 86 | #33,991 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 50 | #10,605 |
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
- How do you pronounce Wisniewska?
- A machine transcription gives /vʲis̪ɲɛfska/ (IPA) for Polish.
- In which country does Wisniewska have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 54 thousand people named Wisniewska, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wisniewska.
- Where is Wisniewska most common?
- Wisniewska is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 707 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Wisniewska?
- In Poland, the national register counted 54,177 people named Wisniewska in 2026, about 1 in 707 residents.
- How common is Wisniewska compared with other names?
- In Poland, Wisniewska is the 23rd most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Wisniewska?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wisniewskaThe 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, “Wisniewska” — the 23rd most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.