Grzywacz
surname · Latin script
Meaning: nickname from grzywacz ‘ringnecked dove’ or from grzywa ‘mane’, with reference to a man with long hair
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɡɝzɪˌvætʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Grzywacz is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- PLPoland
- USUnited States
- GBUnited Kingdom
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
nickname from grzywacz ‘ringnecked dove’ or from grzywa ‘mane’, with reference to a man with long hair. As a Jewish name it is mainly ornamental.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
- Szlama Grzywaczb. 1910PLPolish resistance fighter (1910–1944)
- Waldemar Grzywaczb. 1932PLPolish economist
- Zbylut Grzywaczb. 1939PLPolish artist (1939-2004)
- Maciek Grzywaczb. 1969PLPolish composer
- Marta Grzywaczb. 1971PLPolish journalist
- Kamilla Bakowska-ZywickaPLnot in their usual namePolish biologist
- Monika Gawrońska-GrzywaczPLresearcher
- Anna GrzywaczPLPolish political scientist
- Jacek GrzywaczPLPolish economist
- Beata GrzywaczPLPolish 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 21 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4.2K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4.2K | #495 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4.1K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4.1K | #511 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 580 | #38,214 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 543 | #38,320 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 536 | #43,428 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 54 | #25,060 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 21 | #188,821 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 15 | #63,118 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 15 | #97,717 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 15 | — |
Reference works 6
- 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
- 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
- Where does the name Grzywacz come from?
- nickname from grzywacz ‘ringnecked dove’ or from grzywa ‘mane’, with reference to a man with long hair. As a Jewish name it is mainly ornamental. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Grzywacz?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɝzɪˌvætʃ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Grzywacz mean?
- Recorded meaning: nickname from grzywacz ‘ringnecked dove’ or from grzywa ‘mane’, with reference to a man with long hair.
- In which country does Grzywacz have the most bearers?
- Grzywacz is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/grzywaczThe 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, “Grzywacz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.