Chojnacki
surname · Latin script
Meaning: lived among pine trees, from Pol
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/xɔjˈnat͡s.ki/(recorded in a dictionary) Polish · from Wiktionary
Chojnacki is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 3.2K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 65K
- FIFinland1 in 133K
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
- 118 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)
12,051 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)lived among pine trees, from Pol. choina fir tree + -ak per¬ sonal suffix, with the addition of -ski, suffix of local sur¬ names (see Baranowski). Var.: Chojnowski. Cholain see Kohl Var.: Cholewicki.
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Where in the world
(measured from records)Chojnacki 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 | #188 | 12,051 | 1 in 3.2K | 12K | Chojnacki | 118 |
| US United States | — | 1,630 | 1 in 204K | 1.6K | Chojnacki | 114 |
| FR France | — | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 122K | 64 | Chojnacki | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 288K | listed | Chojnacki | 40 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 262K | — | Chojnacki | 17 |
| NO Norway | — | 84 | 1 in 65K | 84 | Chojnacki | 4 |
| FI Finland | — | 42 | 1 in 133K | 42 | — | — |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 187K | — | Chojnacki | 6 |
12,051 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; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Romuald Chojnackib. 1818PLPolish painter (1818-1885)
- Bronisław Chojnackib. 1895PLPolish politician (1895–1955)
- Fidelis Chojnackib. 1906PLPolish Capuchin friar, priest, and martyr (1906–1942)
- Władysław Chojnackib. 1920PLPolish historian
- Jakub Chojnackib. 1922PLPolish engineer
- Piotr Chojnackib. 1945PLPolish politician and deputy
- Jan Chojnackib. 1947PLPolish politician and deputy
- Marek Chojnackib. 1959PLPolish footballer
- Matthew Chojnackib. 1975USAmerican journalist
- Dariusz Chojnackib. 1981PLPolish actor
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 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 12K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 12K | #104 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.6K | #17,337 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.5K | #17,101 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #18,005 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 103 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 96 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 90 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 88 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 84 | #17,745 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 76 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 68 | — |
Reference works 5
- 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)
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 Chojnacki come from?
- lived among pine trees, from Pol. choina fir tree + -ak per¬ sonal suffix, with the addition of -ski, suffix of local sur¬ names (see Baranowski). Var.: Chojnowski. Cholain see Kohl Var.: Cholewicki. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Chojnacki?
- In Polish /xɔjˈnat͡s.ki/ (Wiktionary).
- What does the name Chojnacki mean?
- Recorded meaning: lived among pine trees, from Pol.
- In which country does Chojnacki have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Chojnacki, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chojnacki.
- Where is Chojnacki most common?
- Chojnacki is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Chojnacki?
- In Poland, the national register counted 12,051 people named Chojnacki in 2026, about 1 in 3.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Chojnacki compared with other names?
- In Poland, Chojnacki is the 188th most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chojnackiThe 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, “Chojnacki” — the 188th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.