Pustelnik

surname · Latin script

Meaning: anchorite, eremite, hermit (religious recluse; someone who lives alone for religious reasons)

/pəstɛɫnɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Pustelnik is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 11K(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 64K
  • NONorway1 in 98K

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)

3,364 people, 2026

Sources
63 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

Locally spelled Pustelník in CZ Czechia.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

anchorite, eremite, hermit (religious recluse; someone who lives alone for religious reasons)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pustelnik 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.

Where Pustelnik is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland3,3641 in 11K1.7KPustelnik63
US United States1831 in 1.8M185Pustelnik33
DK Denmark911 in 64K91——
CZ Czechia601 in 178K60Pustelník8
NO Norway561 in 98K56Pustelnik3
SE Sweden121 in 850K12—1

3,364 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 2020; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); MVČR — living population register 2017; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Pustelnik is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Ukrainian surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, United States

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian

    Also written Пустельник, Пустельнік, Pustel'Nik

26 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Pustelnik is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Polish, Pol. pustelnik hermit.

    as a nameA dictionary of surnames

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)

1940196019802000Piotr Pustelnik, b. 1951Adam Pustelnik, b. 1982Adam Pustelnik, b. 1988Anastazja Pustelnik, b. 2000

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)

FormalDear Pustelnik,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 21 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Pustelnik
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20261.7K—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—1.7K#1,677
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20261.7K—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—1.7K#1,663
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020185#103,399
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010183#98,982
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000170#98,770
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—91#5,996
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—56#24,412
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—12#35,451
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—4#126,125
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—4#21,843

Reference works 5

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 Pustelnik mean, and where does it come from?
anchorite, eremite, hermit (religious recluse; someone who lives alone for religious reasons) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Pustelnik?
A machine transcription gives /pəstɛɫnɪk/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Pustelnik have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 3.4 thousand people named Pustelnik, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pustelnik.
Where is Pustelnik most common?
Pustelnik is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 11 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Pustelnik?
In Poland, the national register counted 3,364 people named Pustelnik in 2026, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.

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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, “Pustelnik”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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