Karcz
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Polish karcz ‘stump’, presumably a nickname, or among Jews an ornamental name
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Karcz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- 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). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 89 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.3K (inferred from the name graph)
6,060 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Polish karcz ‘stump’, presumably a nickname, or among Jews an ornamental name.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(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 497K | — | Karcz | 20 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈96 est. | ≈1 in 648K | — | Karcz | 6 |
| FR France | — | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 919K | 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
- Marta Uszycka-Karczb. 1935PLPolish pediatric nephrologist
- Andrzej Karczb. 1936PLPolish sportsperson and athletics competitor
- Piotr Jakub Karczb. 1978PLPolish writer
- Agnieszka Karczb. 1981PLPolish association football player
- Kamil Karczb. 1986PLPolish footballer
- Rafał Karczb. 1986PLPolish sportsperson
- Waldemar KarczPLPolish plant physiologist and biophysicist
- Paulina KarczPLresearcher
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3K | #782 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3K | #794 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 644 | #35,016 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 629 | #37,959 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 565 | #37,145 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 28 | #36,747 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 24 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 19 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 18 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 16 | #28,135 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- 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.
- In which country does Karcz have the most bearers?
- 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.
- 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” — the 699th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.