Cygan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Gypsy
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈt͡sɘ.ɡan/(recorded in a dictionary) Polish · from Wiktionary
Cygan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 4.3K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 76K
- FIFinland1 in 116K
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
- 97 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
8,818 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)Gypsy
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Cygan 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 | #424 | 8,818 | 1 in 4.3K | 4.4K | Cygan | 97 |
| US United States | — | 1,151 | 1 in 289K | 1.2K | Cygan | 76 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 260K | — | Cygan | 38 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 234K | — | Cygan | 8 |
| FR France | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 443K | 10 | Cygan | 2 |
| NO Norway | — | 72 | 1 in 76K | 72 | Cygan | 5 |
| FI Finland | — | 48 | 1 in 116K | 48 | — | 2 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 181K | — | Cygan | 10 |
8,818 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Cygan 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 ang, alternative form of ċīeġan
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)- Jerzy Cyganb. 1924PLPolish historian
- Jacek Cyganb. 1950PLPolish poet
- John Cyganb. 1954USAmerican actor (1954-2017)
- Bogusław Cyganb. 1964PLPolish footballer (1964-2018)
- Antoni Cyganb. 1964PLPolish painter
- Pascal Cyganb. 1974FRFrench footballer (born 1974)
- Thierry Cyganb. 1975FRFrench footballer (born 1975)
- Marek Cyganb. 1984PLPolish computer scientist
- Szymon CyganPLPolish engineer and researcher
- Wanda Jarnicka-CyganPLPolish physician
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)22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4.4K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4.4K | #449 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4.4K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4.4K | #471 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #22,690 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #22,375 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #21,981 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 72 | #20,122 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 48 | #23,391 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 25 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 24 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 22 | — |
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
- What does the name Cygan mean, and where does it come from?
- Gypsy Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Cygan?
- In Polish /ˈt͡sɘ.ɡan/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Cygan have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 8.8 thousand people named Cygan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cygan.
- Where is Cygan most common?
- Cygan is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Cygan?
- In Poland, the national register counted 8,818 people named Cygan in 2026, about 1 in 4.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Cygan compared with other names?
- In Poland, Cygan is the 424th most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cyganThe 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, “Cygan” — the 424th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.