Barski
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Barski is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: suffix of local surnames (see Baranowski).
- PLPoland1 in 30K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 195K
- ILIsrael≈1 in 577K
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
- 51 (measured from records)
- 1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
1,263 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
suffix of local surnames (see Baranowski). It is therefore either a topographic name or an occupational name for a forester officially empowered to collect wild honey. 2. from a much reduced form of the given name Barttomiej Bartholomew + -ski.
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Barski 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 | 1,263 | 1 in 30K | 1.2K | Barski | 51 |
| US United States | 361 | 1 in 921K | 361 | Barski | 44 |
| BR Brazil | 100 | 1 in 2.1M | 100 | — | — |
| FR France | ≈93 est. | ≈1 in 733K | 9 | Barski | 1 |
| AR Argentina | 54 | 1 in 842K | 54 | — | — |
| CA Canada | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 773K | — | Barski | 9 |
| NO Norway | 28 | 1 in 195K | 28 | — | 2 |
| IL Israel | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 577K | — | Barski | 1 |
1,263 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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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)
Barski is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Polish, Bar (town in Ukraine)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In zlw-opl, only used in mydło barskie
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, marsh, swamp
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)
- Vladimir Barskyb. 1866RUnot in their usual nameRussian film director
- Józef Gitler-Barskib. 1898PLPolish politician (1898–1990)
- Georges Barskib. 1909PLFrench biologist (1909–1985)
- Andrzej Barskib. 1924PLdata i miejsce urodzenia 26 września 1924, Lwów data i miejsce śmierci 17 marca 1977, Wrocław zawód lekarz ; lekarz
- Odile Barskib. 1946FRFrench writer and screenwriter
- Dariusz Barskib. 1968PLPolish politician and deputy
- Ruslan Barskyb. 1992ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli association football player, who also holds a Ukrainian passport
- Radosław Barskib. 1993PLchess player
- Marek BarskiPLPolish researcher
- Janusz BarskiPLPolish civil engineer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.2K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.2K | #2,365 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 361 | #56,588 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 359 | #53,904 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 333 | #64,521 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 100 | #63,366 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 54 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 28 | #35,964 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 23 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 21 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 18 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 16 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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)
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 Barski come from?
- suffix of local surnames (see Baranowski). It is therefore either a topographic name or an occupational name for a forester officially empowered to collect wild honey. 2. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- What does the name Barski mean?
- Recorded meaning: suffix of local surnames (see Baranowski).
- In which country does Barski have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Barski, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled barski.
- Where is Barski most common?
- Barski is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 30 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Barski?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,263 people named Barski in 2026, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Barski?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/barskiThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Barski”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.