Zagorski
surname · Latin script
Meaning: name composed of the Pol
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/z̪aɡɔrs̪ci/(machine-generated) Polish · model-generated
Zagorski is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 9.4K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 199K
- USUnited States1 in 229K
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
- 237 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.4K (inferred from the name graph)
4,084 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)name composed of the Pol. elements za beyond, on the other side of + gora hill (see Gorski) + the local surname suffix -ski (see Baranowski), or habitation name from a place named with the elements za + gora. Vars.: Pol.: Zagorny, Zagorowski. Jewish: Zagorsky, Zagursky. Zahareanu see Zachary Zac see Satz
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Zagorski 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 | 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 |
| EG Egypt | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 721K | — | Zagorski | 1 |
| 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 |
4,084 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026, counting the spelling zagórski. 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Zagorski is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, apdzīvota vieta (skrajciems) Zaļesjes pagastā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, apdzīvota vieta (skrajciems) Istras pagastā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Pyotr Zagorskyb. 1764UAnot in their usual nameanatomist
- Apolinary Zagórskib. 1830PLRussian writer (1830-1858)
- Nikolay Zagorskiyb. 1849RUnot in their usual namepainter (1849-1894)
- S. O. Zagorskiĭb. 1882CHnot in their usual name(1882-1930)
- Vladimir Zagorskyb. 1883RUnot in their usual nameRussian politician (1883–1919)
- Sergiusz Zahorskib. 1886PLnot in their usual namePolish sportsperson and officer
- Vasile Zagorschib. 1926MDnot in their usual nameSoviet composer and pianist (1926-2003)
- Konstantin Zagorskijb. 1933RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian production designer, painter (1933—2024)
- Edmund Zagorskib. 1954USAmerican convicted murderer
- Andrey Zagorskyb. 1959RUnot in their usual nameRussian political scientist
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)24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #18,858 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.4K | #18,288 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #19,426 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 67 | #42,509 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 17 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 17 | #100,770 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 17 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 15 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 15 | #108,548 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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
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 Zagorski mean, and where does it come from?
- name composed of the Pol. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Zagorski?
- In Polish /z̪aɡɔrs̪ci/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Zagorski have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 4.1 thousand people named Zagorski, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zagorski.
- Where is Zagorski most common?
- Zagorski is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 9.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Zagorski?
- In Poland, the national register counted 4,084 people named Zagorski in 2026, about 1 in 9.4 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zagorskiThe 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, “Zagorski”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.