Names of Poland PL

dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) records Nowak as the commonest surname in Poland; the names that most distinguish Poland from the rest of the world are Tomasz, Piotr and Marcin.

Written in Polish.

Population
38M
Official registers
4
Name forms recorded
75K
ABuilt from 4 official registers (2026), 74,549 name forms in our corpus.

Official registers for given names and surnames, plus a written account of the naming system.

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Where the names most characteristic of Poland are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Poland included.

How names work in Poland

Names in Poland follow one naming tradition. Its structure, its given-name and surname stock, how to address someone and what trips software up are set out on its own page.

The most common names in Poland

Counts everyone resident in the country · authority tier 1
dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) — 28,486 given names counted over residents, girls only, as the register publishes them.
#NameBearers recordedOur rank
1Anna1.1M1
2Katarzyna602K11
3Małgorzata572K47
4Maria567K7
5Agnieszka545K10
6Ewa470K—
7Barbara468K13
8Magdalena434K24
9Elżbieta405K—
10Joanna402K18
11Aleksandra390K45
12Krystyna383K15
13Monika377K27
14Zofia360K38
15Natalia320K64
16Julia315K94
17Teresa312K31
18Karolina295K52
19Marta289K40
20Danuta286K43

Where the two lists disagree

14 of dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)'s top 25 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.

dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)Across all recordspiotr: 1 → 21. piotr2krzysztof: 2 → 42. krzysztof4tomasz: 3 → 8 · ranks lower across all records3. tomasz8andrzej: 4 → 64. andrzej6paweł: 5 → 19 · ranks lower across all records5. paweł19michał: 6 → 56. michał5jan: 7 → 37. jan3marcin: 8 → 98. marcin9jakub: 9 → 42 · ranks lower across all records9. jakub42adam: 10 → 1410. adam14łukasz: 11 → 30 · ranks lower across all records11. łukasz30mateusz: 12 → 25 · ranks lower across all records12. mateusz25marek: 13 → 1213. marek12grzegorz: 14 → 1614. grzegorz16stanisław: 15 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country15. stanisławnot rankedwojciech: 16 → 29 · ranks lower across all records16. wojciech29mariusz: 17 → 32 · ranks lower across all records17. mariusz32dariusz: 18 → 35 · ranks lower across all records18. dariusz35maciej: 19 → 33 · ranks lower across all records19. maciej33rafał: 20 → 39 · ranks lower across all records20. rafał39robert: 21 → 2321. robert23zbigniew: 22 → 2622. zbigniew26kamil: 23 → 49 · ranks lower across all records23. kamil49szymon: 24 → 84 · ranks lower across all records24. szymon84dawid: 25 → 37 · ranks lower across all records25. dawid37
Hover a line for what is available to explain that row.
dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) on the left; every record we hold for Poland on the right. A dashed line means the name is not in our top ranks for this country at all.

The register counts one population in one year — everyone it enumerates, once. Our corpus counts records: historical registers going back decades, the diaspora, business and place records, and several generations of births. A name that was common two generations ago outranks a name common today; a name whose spelling scatters across sources (diacritics dropped, transliterated differently) loses ground, because only its dominant spelling is ranked.

Characteristic of Poland

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Poland holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

TomaszPiotrMarcinAgnieszkaKatarzynaKrzysztofStanislawElzbietaMarekJerzyBarbaraGrzegorzPawełZbigniewTadeuszMateuszJacekWojciechZofiaŁukasz
Sized by how much of the difference between Poland's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.(measured from records)

Over time

ZuzannaZofiaMajaJuliaHanna201920258,456
Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present), 2019–2025 (7 years). The line is that register's own figure for each year — not a total across registers, which would count the same people twice. The publisher labels this series “flow”.

Up to five names at a time.

Scripts & spelling

Names in Poland are written in Latin (98%) and Hebrew (2%), measured over the spellings our corpus records for this country.

Polandsurname(measured from records)
Annagiven name(measured from records)
Piotrgiven name(measured from records)
Jangiven name(measured from records)
Krzysztofgiven name(measured from records)
The best-attested names in Poland, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Official registers

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-10-09.

Questions

What is the most common given name in Poland?
Piotr, according to dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names), with 686,017 bearers recorded among boys.
What is the most common surname in Poland?
Nowak, according to dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) (2026), with 99,738 bearers recorded among girls.
Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in Poland?
Because they count different people. dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) counts one population once, and its commonest given name is Piotr. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Anna. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Poland”, https://mondonomo.ai/names/PL (data snapshot 2026-10-09). Official figures from dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames).