Pisarek
surname · Latin script
Meaning: synonym of kupczyk
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Pisarek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 6.9K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 171K
- HRCroatia1 in 325K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.9K (inferred from the name graph)
5,550 people, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
synonym of kupczyk
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pisarek 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.
5,550 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; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
- Abraham Pisarekb. 1901DEGerman photographer (1901–1983)
- Marian Pisarekb. 1912PLMajor of the Polish Air Force, flying ace (1912-1942)
- Walery Pisarekb. 1931PLPolish linguist (1931–2017)
- Krystyna Pisarkowab. 1932PLnot in their usual namePolish linguist, specialist in the Polish language (1932-2010)
- Zdzisław Pisarekb. 1953PLPolish politician and deputy
- Izabella Pisarekb. 1964PLPolish agronomist
- Maciej Pisarekb. 1966PLPolish film director
- Magdalena Willems-Pisarekb. 1972PLPolish painter
- Karolina Pisarekb. 1997PLPolish model
- Marcin PisarekPLPolish researcher (Institute of Physical Chemistry)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2.8K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2.8K | #855 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2.7K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2.7K | #882 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 391 | #50,261 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 379 | #54,418 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 328 | #65,358 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 32 | #34,085 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 14 | #31,998 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 13 | #28,273 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 9 | #44,032 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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 Pisarek mean, and where does it come from?
- synonym of kupczyk Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Pisarek have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 5.5 thousand people named Pisarek, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Pisarek most common?
- Pisarek is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pisarek?
- In Poland, the national register counted 5,550 people named Pisarek in 2026, about 1 in 6.9 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pisarekThe 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, “Pisarek”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.