Górecki
surname · Latin script
/ɡurɛt͡skʲi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Górecki is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Górka or Górki (place names) + -cki. Place names from góra (“mountain”).
- PLPoland1 in 3.1K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 143K
- NONorway1 in 58K
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
- 266 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.1K (inferred from the name graph)
12,290 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 Gorecki in US United States, DE Germany, CZ Czechia and 3 more.
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)
- Górkaor(measured from records)
- Górka rootgóra“mountain”(measured from records)
From Górka or Górki (place names) + -cki. Place names from góra (“mountain”).
Sources 1
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Górecki 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 | #179 | 12,290 | 1 in 3.1K | 12K | Górecki | 86 |
| CN China | — | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 237K | — | Gorecki | 3 |
| US United States | — | 2,320 | 1 in 143K | 2.4K | Gorecki | 266 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Gorecki | 1 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 121K | — | Gorecki | 69 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 110 | 1 in 97K | 110 | Gorecki | 17 |
| NO Norway | — | 94 | 1 in 58K | 94 | Gorecki | 3 |
12,290 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Roman Góreckib. 1889PLPolish officer (1889–1946)
- Wiktor Góreckib. 1899PLPolish Righteous Among the Nations
- Marian Góreckib. 1903PLPolish Catholic priest (1903-1940)
- Wiktor Góreckib. 1903PLPolish economist, diplomat
- Henryk Góreckib. 1933PLPolish composer (1933–2010)
- Henryk Góreckib. 1946PLPolish chemist
- Czesław Góreckib. 1951PLPolish physicist
- Kazimierz Góreckib. 1954PLPolish canoeist (1954–1977)
- Wojciech Góreckib. 1970PLPolish writer
- Mikołaj Góreckib. 1971PLPolish composer
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 9 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 12K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 12K | #101 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 110 | #15,288 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 54 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 54 | #47,526 |
Reference works 3
- 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 Górecki mean, and where does it come from?
- From Górka or Górki (place names) + -cki. Place names from góra (“mountain”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Górecki?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡurɛt͡skʲi/ (IPA) for Polish.
- In which country does Górecki have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Górecki, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled górecki.
- Where is Górecki most common?
- Górecki is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Górecki?
- In Poland, the national register counted 12,290 people named Górecki in 2026, about 1 in 3.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Górecki compared with other names?
- In Poland, Górecki is the 179th most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Górecki?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/g%C3%B3reckiThe 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, “Górecki” — the 179th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.