Jozwiak
surname · Latin script
Meaning: patronymic from the personal name Jozwa, a pet form of Jozef(see Joseph)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈjɑzviæk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jozwiak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 33K(measured from records)
- IEIreland≈1 in 50K
- NONorway1 in 61K
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)
- Sources
- 101 (measured from records)
- 1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
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 Józwiak in PL Poland.
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)
patronymic from the personal name Jozwa, a pet form of Jozef(see Joseph).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jozwiak 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 132K | — | Jozwiak | 1 |
| US United States | — | 2,023 | 1 in 164K | 2.1K | Jozwiak | 101 |
| PL Poland | #274 | 1,175 | 1 in 33K | 590 | Józwiak | 94 |
| FR France | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 167K | 44 | — | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 222K | — | Jozwiak | 47 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Jozwiak | 11 |
| NO Norway | — | 90 | 1 in 61K | 90 | — | 3 |
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); 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)
- Barry Jozwiakb. 1945USAmerican politician
- Brian Jozwiakb. 1963USAll-American college football player, professional football player, offensive lineman
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 22 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.1K | #13,344 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2K | #14,695 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2K | #14,503 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 90 | #16,737 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 54 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 53 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 45 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 44 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 44 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 44 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 43 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 34 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Jozwiak mean, and where does it come from?
- patronymic from the personal name Jozwa, a pet form of Jozef(see Joseph). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Jozwiak?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈjɑzviæk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Jozwiak have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Jozwiak in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jozwiak.
- Where is Jozwiak most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jozwiak is densest in Poland — about 1 in 33 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Jozwiak?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,023 people named Jozwiak in 2010, about 1 in 164 thousand residents.
- How common is Jozwiak compared with other names?
- In Poland, Jozwiak is the 274th most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jozwiakThe 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, “Jozwiak” — the 274th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.