Popiołek
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/pɔpʲɔwɛk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Popiołek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 9K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 5.4M
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 22M
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)
- Record sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.0K (inferred from the name graph)
4,237 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Popiołek 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 | 4,237 | 1 in 9K | 2.2K | Popiołek | 38 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 22M | — | Popiołek | 1 |
| FR France | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 37M | — | Popiołek | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | 2 | 1 in 5.4M | 2 | — | — |
4,237 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); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)- Franciszek Popiołekb. 1868PLPolish historian (1868–1960)
- Kazimierz Popiołekb. 1903PLPolish historian
- Irena Popiołek-Rodzińskab. 1939PLPolish painter
- Zofia Popiołekb. 1952PLPolish politician and deputy
- Krzysztof Popiołekb. 1956PLPolish politician and deputy
- Daria Gosek-Popiołekb. 1985PLPolish activist and politician
- Zygmunt PopiołekPLPolish botanist
- Katarzyna Popiolek-BarczykPLnot in their usual nameresearcher
- Łukasz PopiołekPLPolish pharmaceutical scientist
- Zbigniew PopiolekPLnot in their usual nameresearcher
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2.2K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2.2K | #1,235 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2.1K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2.1K | #1,257 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2 | #193,341 |
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 Popiołek?
- A machine transcription gives /pɔpʲɔwɛk/ (IPA) for Polish.
- In which country does Popiołek have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 4.2 thousand people named Popiołek, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled popiołek.
- Where is Popiołek most common?
- Popiołek is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 9.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Popiołek?
- In Poland, the national register counted 4,237 people named Popiołek in 2026, about 1 in 9.0 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Popiołek?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/popio%C5%82ekThe 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, “Popiołek”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.