Cieslak
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Pol. ciesla carpenter (cogn
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈtʃɛsɫək/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cieslak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 1.7K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 34K
- FIFinland1 in 90K
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
- 104 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
23,158 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Pol. ciesla carpenter (cogn. with Russ, teslo adze) + the redundant agent suffix -ak. Vars.: Chuck see Such Ciesla; Ciesielski (with surname suffix -ski; see Baranowski).
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cieslak 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 | #225 | 23,158 | 1 in 1.7K | 12K | Cieslak | 99 |
| CN China | — | ≈8,900 est. | ≈1 in 157K | — | Cieslak | 2 |
| US United States | — | 1,746 | 1 in 191K | 1.7K | Cieslak | 104 |
| BR Brazil | — | 693 | 1 in 306K | 693 | — | 2 |
| FR France | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 143K | 43 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | 162 | 1 in 34K | 162 | Cieslak | 8 |
| FI Finland | — | 62 | 1 in 90K | 62 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | — | 42 | 1 in 140K | 42 | — | — |
23,158 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026, counting the spelling cieślak. 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); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Cieslak 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 German, Aus poln. cieśla 'Zimmermann'; Berufsname. Bearer count: 305.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
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)
- Celso Cieslakb. 1967BRBrazilian politician
- Brad Cieslakb. 1982USplayer of American football
- Larissa Cieslakb. 1987BRBrazilian swimmer
- Anja CieslakDEGerman entomologist
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 25 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.7K | #16,462 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,431 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.7K | #15,854 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 693 | #12,713 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 162 | #9,723 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 93 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 89 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 81 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 79 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 73 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 73 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 72 | — |
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
- 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 Cieslak come from?
- Pol. ciesla carpenter (cogn. with Russ, teslo adze) + the redundant agent suffix -ak. Vars.: Chuck see Such Ciesla; Ciesielski (with surname suffix -ski; see Baranowski). Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Cieslak?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈtʃɛsɫək/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Cieslak mean?
- Recorded meaning: Pol. ciesla carpenter (cogn.
- In which country does Cieslak have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 23 thousand people named Cieslak, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cieslak.
- Where is Cieslak most common?
- Cieslak is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Cieslak?
- In Poland, the national register counted 23,158 people named Cieslak in 2026, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Cieslak compared with other names?
- In Poland, Cieslak is the 225th 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/cieslakThe 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, “Cieslak” — the 225th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.