Mazur
surname · Latin script
Meaning: for someone from one of two provinces of Poland: Masovia (Pol
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 22 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈma.zur/(recorded in a dictionary) Polish · from Wiktionary
Mazur is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country, where it is the 8th most common surname.
- PLPoland1 in 549(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 7.9K
- SKSlovakia1 in 12K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mazur itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 178 (measured from records)
- 1 in 549 (inferred from the name graph)
69,782 people, 2026
recorded for this name
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)Locally spelled Мазур in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, BY Belarus.
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)for someone from one of two provinces of Poland: Masovia (Pol. Mazowsze) or Masuria (Pol. Mazury) in NE Poland, famous for its lakes. Masuria is so called because it was col¬ onized by settlers from Masovia, replacing the Baltic inhabitants. The primary meaning of Mazur in Polish is someone from Masovia. Mazurowski. Jewish:
Cited for this meaning 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mazur 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 | #8 | 69,782 | 1 in 549 | 35K | Mazur | 159 |
| UA Ukraine | #46 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Мазур | 62 |
| RU Russia | #988 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.9K | — | Мазур | 149 |
| US United States | — | 8,733 | 1 in 38K | 8.7K | Mazur | 178 |
| BR Brazil | — | 2,879 | 1 in 74K | 2.9K | — | 1 |
| BY Belarus | #17 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | — | Мазур | 20 |
| NO Norway | — | 690 | 1 in 7.9K | 690 | Mazur | 14 |
69,782 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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)Mazur is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
regional name, nickname Polish, Ukrainian, and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic), regional name for someone from the medieval province of Masovia (Polish Mazowsze), which includes modern Masuria. It may also be a nickname meaning ‘rustic’.
as a nameThe Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
1. regional name for someone from the medieval province of Masovia (Polish Mazowsze), which includes modem Masuria. 2. Polish: nickname from Polish mazur ‘mstic’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Polish, Masurian; Masovian (person from Masuria or Masovia)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Russian, Ian Mazur, craftsman. 1563.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Turkish, One who has a valid excuse; excused.
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)- Stanisław Mazurb. 1905PLPolish mathematician (1905–1981)
- Barry Mazurb. 1937USAmerican mathematician
- Jerzy Mazurb. 1953PLPolish Roman-Catholic bishop
- Eric Mazurb. 1954NLDutch physicist
- Marilyn Mazurb. 1955USDanish musician (1955–2025)
- Daniel Mazurb. 1960USAmerican mountain climber
- Epic Mazurb. 1970USAmerican musician
- Monet Mazurb. 1976USactress
- Heather Mazurb. 1976USactress
- Lucas Mazurb. 1997FRFrench para badminton player
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)41 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 35K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 35K | #13 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 35K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 35K | #13 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 8.7K | #4,069 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.7K | #3,735 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.5K | #4,069 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.9K | #3,547 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 690 | #1,808 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 345 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2024 | 341 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2023 | 327 | — |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Mazur mean?
- Recorded meaning: for someone from one of two provinces of Poland: Masovia (Pol.
- Where does the name Mazur come from?
- for someone from one of two provinces of Poland: Masovia (Pol. Mazowsze) or Masuria (Pol. Mazury) in NE Poland, famous for its lakes. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- How do you pronounce Mazur?
- In Polish /ˈma.zur/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Mazur have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 70 thousand people named Mazur, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mazur.
- Where is Mazur most common?
- Mazur is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 549 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Mazur?
- In Poland, the national register counted 69,782 people named Mazur in 2026, about 1 in 549 residents.
- How common is Mazur compared with other names?
- In Poland, Mazur is the 8th 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/mazurThe 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, “Mazur” — the 8th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.