Chrzanowski
surname · Latin script
Meaning: named from Pol. chrzan horseradish (cogn
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/xʂan̪ɔfs̪ci/(machine-generated) Polish · model-generated
Chrzanowski is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 5K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 94K
- FIFinland1 in 180K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 129 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.0K (inferred from the name graph)
7,621 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)named from Pol. chrzan horseradish (cogn. with Czech kfen) + -ow possessive suffix, with the addition of -ski, suf¬ fix of local surnames (see Baranowski). Cogns.: Czech: Kfen (apparently a nickname meaning ‘horse¬ radish’, acquired perhaps by someone with a stinging tongue). Russ.: Khrenov (patr. in form). Dim.: Czech: Krenek.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Chrzanowski is found
(measured from records)Chrzanowski 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 | #431 | 7,621 | 1 in 5K | 7.6K | Chrzanowski | 97 |
| US United States | — | 1,612 | 1 in 206K | 1.6K | Chrzanowski | 129 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 279K | listed | Chrzanowski | 42 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 328K | — | Chrzanowski | 17 |
| FR France | — | ≈84 est. | ≈1 in 818K | 9 | Chrzanowski | 2 |
| NO Norway | — | 58 | 1 in 94K | 58 | Chrzanowski | 9 |
| FI Finland | — | 31 | 1 in 180K | 31 | — | — |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 189K | — | Chrzanowski | 3 |
7,621 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); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Wojciech Chrzanowskib. 1788PLPolish general (1793-1861)
- Ignacy Chrzanowskib. 1866PLPolish historian (1866–1940)
- Zbigniew Chrzanowskib. 1963PLPolish politician and deputy
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)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Chrzanowski come from?
- named from Pol. chrzan horseradish (cogn. with Czech kfen) + -ow possessive suffix, with the addition of -ski, suf¬ fix of local surnames (see Baranowski). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- How do you pronounce Chrzanowski?
- In Polish /xʂan̪ɔfs̪ci/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Chrzanowski mean?
- Recorded meaning: named from Pol. chrzan horseradish (cogn.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Chrzanowski?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 7.6 thousand people named Chrzanowski, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chrzanowski. After it come United States, United Kingdom, Canada and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Chrzanowski most common?
- Chrzanowski is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Chrzanowski?
- In Poland, the national register counted 7,621 people named Chrzanowski in 2026, about 1 in 5.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Chrzanowski compared with other names?
- In Poland, Chrzanowski is the 431st 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/chrzanowskiThe 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, “Chrzanowski” — the 431st most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.