Michalski
surname · Latin script
Meaning: locative name denoting someone from Michale (Bydgoszcz voivodeship), or Michaƚy (Pƚock voivodeship)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˌmɪˈtʃɑɫski/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Michalski is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country, where it is the 47th most common surname.
- PLPoland1 in 1.5K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 48K
- NONorway1 in 23K
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
- 156 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
26,217 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
locative name denoting someone from Michale (Bydgoszcz voivodeship), or Michaƚy (Pƚock voivodeship). Some examples may belong under (2).
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Michalski 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 | #47 | 26,217 | 1 in 1.5K | 26K | Michalski | 143 |
| US United States | — | 6,914 | 1 in 48K | 6.9K | Michalski | 156 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,333 | 1 in 159K | 1.3K | — | 1 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 65K | 116 | Michalski | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Michalski | 66 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Michalski | 32 |
| NO Norway | — | 240 | 1 in 23K | 240 | Michalski | 13 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Michalski | 8 |
26,217 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); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Michalski is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
habitational name for someone from a place called Michale in Bydgoszcz voivodeship, or Michaty in Plock voivodeship.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
patronymic from personal name Michal (see Michael).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, slawischer Familienname in -ski; patronymisch/ortsbezogen. 1949 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
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)
- Abraham Michalskib. 1889DEGerman rabbi (1889–1961)
- Teodoro Picado Michalskib. 1900CRPresident of Costa Rica (1900-1960)
- Jerzy Michalskib. 1924PLPolish historian (1924–2007)
- Krzysztof Michalskib. 1948PLPolish philosopher (1948-2013)
- Artur Michalskib. 1962PLPolish diplomat
- Grzegorz Marek Michalskib. 1972PLPolish economist
- Arkadiusz Michalskib. 1990PLPolish weightlifter
- Piotr Michalskib. 1994PLPolish speed skater
- Isaiah Michalskib. 1998DEactor
- Daniel Michalskib. 2000PLPolish tennis player (2000-)
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 29 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 26K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 26K | #24 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.9K | #5,072 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.9K | #4,724 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.5K | #5,169 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.3K | #7,120 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 240 | #6,519 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 190 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 190 | #17,249 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 185 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 168 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 143 | — |
Reference works 7
- 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)
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
- Where does the name Michalski come from?
- locative name denoting someone from Michale (Bydgoszcz voivodeship), or Michaƚy (Pƚock voivodeship). Some examples may belong under (2). Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Michalski?
- A machine transcription gives /ˌmɪˈtʃɑɫski/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Michalski mean?
- Recorded meaning: locative name denoting someone from Michale (Bydgoszcz voivodeship), or Michaƚy (Pƚock voivodeship).
- In which country does Michalski have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 26 thousand people named Michalski, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled michalski.
- Where is Michalski most common?
- Michalski is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.5 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Michalski?
- In Poland, the national register counted 26,217 people named Michalski in 2026, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Michalski compared with other names?
- In Poland, Michalski is the 47th most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Michalski” — the 47th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.