Modzelewski
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mədʒɪˈɫɛfski/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Modzelewski is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Polish Modzelewski.
- PLPoland1 in 9.6K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 318K
- SESweden1 in 486K
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
- 87 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.6K (inferred from the name graph)
3,981 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Polish Modzelewski.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Modzelewski 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 | 3,981 | 1 in 9.6K | 4K | Modzelewski | 77 |
| US United States | 1,046 | 1 in 318K | 1K | Modzelewski | 87 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 502K | — | Modzelewski | 23 |
| CA Canada | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 699K | — | Modzelewski | 8 |
| FR France | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | 6 | Modzelewski | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 21 | 1 in 486K | 21 | — | 4 |
| IE Ireland | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 500K | — | Modzelewski | 4 |
3,981 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jan Modzelewskib. 1873PLPolish physicist
- Zygmunt Modzelewskib. 1900PLPolish politician (1900-1954)
- Stanley Stutzb. 1920USnot in their usual nameAmerican basketball player (1920–1975)
- Stanisław Modzelewskib. 1929PLPolish murderer (1929–1969)
- Ed Modzelewskib. 1929USPlayer of American football (1929-2015)
- Dick Modzelewskib. 1931USAmerican football player and coach (1931-2018)
- Kazimierz Modzelewskib. 1934PLPolish politician and deputy
- Karol Modzelewskib. 1937PLPolish historian and politician, born 1937 (1937–2019)
- Waldemar Modzelewskib. 1967PLPolish politician and deputy
- Marek Modzelewskib. 1972PLPolish screenwriter
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 17 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4K | #534 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1K | #24,075 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 962 | #24,386 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 929 | #27,480 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 29 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 29 | #71,831 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 21 | #24,802 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 4 | — |
Reference works 4
- 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 Modzelewski mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Polish Modzelewski. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Modzelewski?
- A machine transcription gives /mədʒɪˈɫɛfski/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Modzelewski have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 4.0 thousand people named Modzelewski, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled modzelewski.
- Where is Modzelewski most common?
- Modzelewski is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 9.6 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Modzelewski?
- In Poland, the national register counted 3,981 people named Modzelewski in 2026, about 1 in 9.6 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/modzelewskiThe 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, “Modzelewski”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.