Golinski
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name for someone from a place called Golina or Gola, for example in Kalisz voivodeship, named with goty ‘naked’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡəˈɫɪnski/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Golinski is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 14K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 304K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 351K
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
- 62 (measured from records)
- 1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
2,725 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Goliński in FR France.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
habitational name for someone from a place called Golina or Gola, for example in Kalisz voivodeship, named with goty ‘naked’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Golinski 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 | 2,725 | 1 in 14K | 2.7K | Golinski | 62 |
| CN China | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 726K | — | Golinski | 1 |
| US United States | 420 | 1 in 792K | 470 | Golinski | 37 |
| BR Brazil | 305 | 1 in 694K | 305 | — | — |
| FR France | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 555K | 13 | Goliński | 2 |
| CA Canada | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 516K | — | Golinski | 9 |
| NO Norway | 18 | 1 in 304K | 18 | — | 3 |
| EE Estonia | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 351K | listed | — | 2 |
2,725 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026, counting the spelling goliński. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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)
- Alma Golinskib. 1880PLHolocaust victim (born 1880)
- Edith Golinskib. 1912DEGerman writer (1912-1985)
- Heinz Golinskib. 1919DEGerman flying ace (1919–1942)
- Stanislas Golinskib. 1924FRFrench association football player (1924-2012)
- Jan Golinskib. 1957UShistorian of science
- Maciej Golinskib. 1987PLPolish footballer
- Freek Golinskib. 1991BEbadminton player
- Vasiliy GolinskiUAUkrainian Righteous Among the Nations
- J. V. GolinskiGBresearcher
- Andreas GolinskiArtist
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 19 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 470 | #43,290 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 420 | #49,914 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 412 | #54,078 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 305 | #26,042 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 45 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 45 | #53,308 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 32 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 26 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 21 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 21 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 19 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 18 | #44,443 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
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 Golinski mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name for someone from a place called Golina or Gola, for example in Kalisz voivodeship, named with goty ‘naked’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Golinski?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡəˈɫɪnski/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Golinski have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Golinski, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled golinski.
- Where is Golinski most common?
- Golinski is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 14 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Golinski?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2,725 people named Golinski in 2026, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/golinskiThe 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, “Golinski”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.