Jezewski
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name for someone from any of various places named Jezewo, named with jez ‘hedgehog’ (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/jɛʂɛfs̪ci/(machine-generated) Polish · model-generated
Jezewski is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country: 1,958 people, counted by dane.gov.pl in 2026.
- PLPoland1 in 20K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 510K
- USUnited States1 in 758K
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)
- Record sources
- 39 (measured from records)
- 1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
1,958 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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 Jeżewski in PL Poland, 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.
How to pronounce Jezewski
- Polish:/jɛʂɛfs̪ci/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)habitational name for someone from any of various places named Jezewo, named with jez ‘hedgehog’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Jezewski is found
(measured from records)Jezewski 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 | 1,958 | 1 in 20K | 2K | Jeżewski | 39 |
| US United States | 439 | 1 in 758K | 459 | Jezewski | 33 |
| FR France | ≈99 est. | ≈1 in 694K | 17 | Jeżewski | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Jezewski | 14 |
| CA Canada | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 651K | — | Jezewski | 6 |
| SE Sweden | 20 | 1 in 510K | 20 | — | 1 |
1,958 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 2000; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jezewski mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name for someone from any of various places named Jezewo, named with jez ‘hedgehog’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Jezewski?
- In Polish /jɛʂɛfs̪ci/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Jezewski?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 2.0 thousand people named Jezewski, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jeżewski. After it come United States, France, United Kingdom and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Jezewski most common?
- Jezewski is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 20 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Jezewski?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,958 people named Jezewski in 2026, about 1 in 20 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/jezewskiThe 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, “Jezewski” — ranked 1365th in Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.