Nycz
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a pet form of the personal name Nikolaus (Polish form Mikolaj), or possibly a Polonized form of German Nitz
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈnɪtʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nycz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 8.6K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 342K
- CZCzechia1 in 535K
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
- 77 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.6K (inferred from the name graph)
4,471 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a pet form of the personal name Nikolaus (Polish form Mikolaj), or possibly a Polonized form of German Nitz.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nycz 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 | 4,471 | 1 in 8.6K | 2.3K | Nycz | 77 |
| US United States | 504 | 1 in 660K | 504 | Nycz | 44 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 721K | 42 | Nycz | 24 |
| IT Italy | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Nycz | 5 |
| FR France | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | 3 | Nycz | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | 20 | 1 in 535K | 20 | Nycz | 4 |
| NO Norway | 16 | 1 in 342K | 16 | — | — |
4,471 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); MVČR — living population register 2017; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Leszek Lubicz-Nyczb. 1899PLMajor of the Polish Army, Polish fencer (1899-1939)
- Michał Nyczb. 1909PLPolish surgeon
- Kazimierz Nyczb. 1949PLPolish politician and deputy
- Kazimierz Nyczb. 1950PLCatholic cardinal, Archbishop of Warsaw
- Ryszard Nyczb. 1951PLPolish historian
- Wacław Nyczb. 1954PLPolish sportsperson
- Jean-Claude Nyczb. 1955FRFrench politician
- Edward Nyczb. 1961PLPolish sociologist
- Mateusz Nyczb. 1989PLPolish fencer
- Małgorzata NyczPLPolish economist
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 18 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2.3K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2.3K | #1,160 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2.2K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2.2K | #1,195 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 504 | #42,937 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 469 | #43,377 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 460 | #49,411 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 42 | #56,688 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 20 | #54,177 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 16 | #45,965 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 8 | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- What does the name Nycz mean, and where does it come from?
- from a pet form of the personal name Nikolaus (Polish form Mikolaj), or possibly a Polonized form of German Nitz. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Nycz?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈnɪtʃ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Nycz have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 4.5 thousand people named Nycz, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nycz.
- Where is Nycz most common?
- Nycz is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 8.6 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Nycz?
- In Poland, the national register counted 4,471 people named Nycz in 2026, about 1 in 8.6 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nyczThe 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, “Nycz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.