Dworak

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Polish: synonym of dworzanin

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/ˈdwɝək/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Dworak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 8.9K(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 144K
  • CNChina≈1 in 182K

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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈7,700 people, est.

Sources
85 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 8.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

poln. Familienname slaw. Herkunft; Dwor-/Twor-Variation, mit Bearer count im Text.

Sources 1

  • Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

How Dworak is read(measured from records)

Dworak is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English64%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Dworak in English.

  • Polish13%

    synonym of dworzanin

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • German11%

    poln. Familienname slaw. Herkunft; Dwor-/Twor-Variation, mit Bearer count im Text.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Dworak 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.

Where Dworak is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China≈7,700 est.≈1 in 182K—Dworak1
PL Poland4,3131 in 8.9K2.2KDworak82
US United States1,0251 in 325K1KDworak85
GB United Kingdom≈120 est.≈1 in 539K—Dworak27
CA Canada≈91 est.≈1 in 416K—Dworak11
NO Norway381 in 144K38Dworak8
EE Estonia≈4 est.≈1 in 351Klisted—2

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 2000; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Dworak is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Austria, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Dwořak, Dworâk, Dworák

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Dwořák

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Dwořák, Dwořak

  • Czech surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Czechia

    Also written Dwořák, Dwořak

32 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Adelheid Popp, b. 1869Franz Dworak, b. 1902Paula Dvorak, b. 1913Günter Dworak, b. 1928Tadeusz Zbigniew Dworak, b. 1942Andrzej Dworak, b. 1945Jan Dworak, b. 1948Bernhard Dworak, b. 1948Rupert Dworak, b. 1962Anna Dworak, b. 1971

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)

FormalDear Dworak,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 22 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Dworak
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262.2K—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2.2K#1,230
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262.2K—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2.2K#1,218
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001K#23,104
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101K#24,431
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201K#25,434
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—38#31,004
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

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 Dworak come from?
poln. Familienname slaw. Herkunft; Dwor-/Twor-Variation, mit Bearer count im Text. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus.
How do you pronounce Dworak?
A machine transcription gives /ˈdwɝək/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Dworak mean?
In Polish, synonym of dworzanin
In which country does Dworak have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 7.7 thousand people named Dworak in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dworak.
Where is Dworak most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dworak is densest in Poland — about 1 in 8.9 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Dworak?
In Poland, the national register counted 4,313 people named Dworak in 2026, about 1 in 8.9 thousand residents.

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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, “Dworak”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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