Karcz
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Polish karcz ‘stump’, presumably a nickname, or among Jews an ornamental name (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈkart͡ʂ/(recorded in a dictionary) Polish · from Wiktionary
Karcz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country: 6,060 people, counted by dane.gov.pl in 2026.
- PLPoland1 in 6.3K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 195K
- DKDenmark1 in 367K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 89 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.3K (inferred from the name graph)
6,060 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Karcz
- Polish:/ˈkart͡ʂ/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from Polish karcz ‘stump’, presumably a nickname, or among Jews an ornamental name.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Karcz is found
(measured from records)Karcz 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 | #699 | 6,060 | 1 in 6.3K | 3K | Karcz | 89 |
| US United States | — | 644 | 1 in 517K | 644 | Karcz | 73 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 548K | — | Karcz | 20 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 545K | — | Karcz | 13 |
| FR France | — | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 903K | 8 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | 28 | 1 in 195K | 28 | Karcz | 6 |
| DK Denmark | — | 16 | 1 in 367K | 16 | — | — |
6,060 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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)- Jan Karczb. 1892PLcolonel of the Polish Army (1892–1943)
- Zeno Karczb. 1935CAPlayer of American and Canadian football
- Kamil Karczb. 1986PLPolish footballer
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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Karcz mean, and where does it come from?
- from Polish karcz ‘stump’, presumably a nickname, or among Jews an ornamental name. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Karcz?
- In Polish /ˈkart͡ʂ/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Karcz?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 6.1 thousand people named Karcz, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled karcz. After it come United States, United Kingdom, Canada and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Karcz most common?
- Karcz is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Karcz?
- In Poland, the national register counted 6,060 people named Karcz in 2026, about 1 in 6.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Karcz compared with other names?
- In Poland, Karcz is the 699th 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/karczThe 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, “Karcz” — ranked 782nd in Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.