Podolski
surname · Latin script
Meaning: name for someone from Podolia in the Ukraine (Pol (The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/pɔdɔlskʲi/(machine-generated) Polish · model-generated
Podolski is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country: 1,973 people, counted by dane.gov.pl in 2026.
- PLPoland1 in 19K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 27K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 150K
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
- 76 (measured from records)
- 1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
1,973 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Podolski
- Polish:/pɔdɔlskʲi/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)name for someone from Podolia in the Ukraine (Pol.
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 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Podolski is found
(measured from records)Podolski 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 | 1,973 | 1 in 19K | 1.9K | Podolski | 76 |
| US United States | 525 | 1 in 634K | 525 | Podolski | 49 |
| HR Croatia | 158 | 1 in 27K | 158 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈93 est. | ≈1 in 748K | 25 | Podolski | 18 |
| CA Canada | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 559K | — | Podolski | 7 |
| BE Belgium | 27 | 1 in 434K | 27 | — | 2 |
| NO Norway | 26 | 1 in 210K | 26 | Podolski | 6 |
| EE Estonia | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 148K | listed | — | 1 |
1,973 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; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)Podolski 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 Polish, Podolian (of or relating to Podolia)
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)- Boris Podolskyb. 1896USnot in their usual nameRussian-American physicist (1896-1966)
- Sophie Podolskib. 1953BEBelgian poet and graphic artist (1953-1974)
- Lukas Podolskib. 1985PLGerman association football player (born 1985)
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)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Podolski mean, and where does it come from?
- name for someone from Podolia in the Ukraine (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 Podolski?
- In Polish /pɔdɔlskʲi/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Podolski?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 2.0 thousand people named Podolski, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled podolski. After it come United States, Croatia, United Kingdom and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Podolski most common?
- Podolski is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 19 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Podolski?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,973 people named Podolski in 2026, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/podolskiThe 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, “Podolski” — ranked 1370th in Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.