Mazurek
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A kind of Polish cake baked at Easter, typically made from pastry with a layer of butter sponge cake on top, sometimes affixed with marmalade, and topped with nut-based icing and candied fruits
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/məzˈjuɹɛk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mazurek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country, where it is the 49th most common surname.
- PLPoland1 in 1.2K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 113K
- NONorway1 in 28K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 152 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
31,241 people, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
mazurka, Mazur (Polish folk dance in triple time, usually moderately fast, containing a heavy accent on the third beat and occasionally the second beat)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
How Mazurek is read(measured from records)
Mazurek is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English49%
A kind of Polish cake baked at Easter, typically made from pastry with a layer of butter sponge cake on top, sometimes affixed with marmalade, and topped with nut-based icing and candied fruits.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Polish30%
mazurka, Mazur (Polish folk dance in triple time, usually moderately fast, containing a heavy accent on the third beat and occasionally the second beat)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mazurek 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 | #49 | 31,241 | 1 in 1.2K | 16K | Mazurek | 152 |
| US United States | — | 2,945 | 1 in 113K | 2.9K | Mazurek | 120 |
| BR Brazil | — | 792 | 1 in 267K | 792 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 105K | — | Mazurek | 60 |
| FR France | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 119K | 54 | Mazurek | 2 |
| NO Norway | — | 194 | 1 in 28K | 194 | — | 8 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 170 | 1 in 63K | 170 | Mazurek | 25 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Mazurek | 7 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 106 | 1 in 51K | 106 | Mazurek | 15 |
31,241 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); MVČR — living population register 2017; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Mazurek 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.
diminutive of Mazur.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Alfons Mazurekb. 1891PLCarmelite friar, prior and priest. (1891–1944)
- Bohdan Mazurekb. 1937PLPolish composer
- Edward Mazurekb. 1938USMember of Maine State Senate (1938-2017)
- Fred Mazurekb. 1943USAmerican football player
- Rob Mazurekb. 1965USAmerican musician
- Beata Mazurekb. 1967PLPolish politician
- Jakub Mazurekb. 1981PLPolish actor and film director
- Marta Mazurekb. 1990PLPolish actor
- Franco Mazurekb. 1993ARArgentinian association football player
- Bartosz Mazurekb. 2007PLPolish association football 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)
Attested in 33 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 16K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 16K | #68 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 15K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 15K | #69 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.9K | #10,815 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.9K | #10,173 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.8K | #10,833 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 792 | #11,363 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 194 | #8,193 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 170 | #9,949 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 170 | #6,039 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 106 | — |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- Where does the name Mazurek come from?
- mazurka, Mazur (Polish folk dance in triple time, usually moderately fast, containing a heavy accent on the third beat and occasionally the second beat) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Mazurek?
- A machine transcription gives /məzˈjuɹɛk/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Mazurek mean?
- In English, A kind of Polish cake baked at Easter, typically made from pastry with a layer of butter sponge cake on top, sometimes affixed with marmalade, and topped with nut-based icing and candied fruits.
- In which country does Mazurek have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 31 thousand people named Mazurek, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mazurek.
- Where is Mazurek most common?
- Mazurek is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Mazurek?
- In Poland, the national register counted 31,241 people named Mazurek in 2026, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Mazurek compared with other names?
- In Poland, Mazurek is the 49th most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Mazurek” — the 49th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.