Migas
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɪɡəz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Migas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 15K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 1.5M
- USUnited States1 in 1.6M
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
- 66 (measured from records)
- 1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
2,513 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Migas 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 | 2,513 | 1 in 15K | 1.3K | Migas | 66 |
| US United States | 203 | 1 in 1.6M | 204 | Migas | 25 |
| BR Brazil | 37 | 1 in 5.7M | 37 | — | 1 |
| FR France | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | 9 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | — | Migas | 19 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Migas | 5 |
| BE Belgium | 6 | 1 in 2M | 6 | — | — |
2,513 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Migas is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Indonesian, syllabic abbreviation of minyak dan gas bumi (“oil and natural gas”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Any of various traditional Spanish or Portuguese dishes made with seasoned leftover bread or similar.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, second-person singular present indicative of migar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Zemums starp divi kāpu grēdām, purvains, arī ar ūdeni; ziemu tur ledus un labs (kamanu) ceļš
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Genowefa Migas-Stawarzb. 1935PLfencer
- Václav Migasb. 1944Czech footballer (1944-2000)
- Juraj Migasb. 1957SKSlovak diplomat
- Maciej Migasb. 1976PLPolish film director
- Agnieszka Mastalerz-Migasb. 1976PLPolish family medicine specialist and researcher
- Robert Migasb. 1988PLPolish geographer, physicist, audio engineer
- Dawid Migasb. 1999PLPolish cyclist
- Sylwia MigasGBresearcher
- Piotr MigasPLPolish pharmaceutical scientist
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 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.3K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.3K | #2,353 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.2K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.2K | #2,384 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 204 | #85,297 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 203 | #90,853 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 187 | #102,571 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 37 | #129,205 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 9 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 6 | #96,597 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Migas?
- A machine transcription gives /mɪɡəz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Migas have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 2.5 thousand people named Migas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled migas.
- Where is Migas most common?
- Migas is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 15 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Migas?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2,513 people named Migas in 2026, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Migas?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/migasThe 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, “Migas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.