Król
surname · Latin script
Meaning: king (male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy) (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈkrul/(recorded in a dictionary) Polish · from Wiktionary
Król is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country: 53,528 people, counted by dane.gov.pl in 2026, which ranks it 22nd.
- PLPoland1 in 715(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 5.6K
- NONorway1 in 17K
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
- 143 (measured from records)
- 1 in 715 (inferred from the name graph)
53,528 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 Krol in US United States, NL Netherlands, GB United Kingdom and 1 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.
How to pronounce Król
- Polish:/ˈkrul/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)king (male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Król is found
(measured from records)Król 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 | #13 | 53,528 | 1 in 715 | 27K | Król | 143 |
| US United States | — | 4,025 | 1 in 83K | 4K | Krol | 143 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 3,081 | 1 in 5.6K | 3.1K | Krol | 23 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 59K | listed | — | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 72K | listed | Krol | 81 |
| NO Norway | — | 330 | 1 in 17K | 330 | Krol | 11 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Król | 9 |
| IS Iceland | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 45K | listed | — | — |
53,528 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Król is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In zlw-slv, king
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Joachim Królb. 1957DEGerman actor
- Jacek Królb. 1973PLPolish actor
- Aleksandra Król-Walasb. 1990PLPolish snowboarder
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Król mean, and where does it come from?
- king (male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Król?
- In the etymology graph, King, König and Кріль are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Król?
- In Polish /ˈkrul/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Król?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 54 thousand people named Król, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled król. After it come United States, Netherlands, Germany and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Król most common?
- Król is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 715 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Król?
- In Poland, the national register counted 53,528 people named Król in 2026, about 1 in 715 residents.
- How common is Król compared with other names?
- In Poland, Król is the 13th most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Król?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kr%C3%B3lThe 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, “Król” — ranked 22nd in Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.