Rudnik
surname · Latin script
Meaning: synonym of górnik (“miner”)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/rudɲik/(machine-generated) Polish · model-generated
Rudnik is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 5.4K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 54K
- NONorway1 in 85K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Rudnik itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 119 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.4K (inferred from the name graph)
7,108 people, 2026
recorded for this name
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:
Locally spelled Рудник in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, BY Belarus.
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 górnik (“miner”)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Rudnik 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 | #897 | 7,108 | 1 in 5.4K | 3.6K | Rudnik | 85 |
| US United States | — | 2,371as Rudnick | 1 in 140K | 2.4K | Rudnik | 48 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Рудник | 36 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Рудник | 119 |
| BR Brazil | — | 815as Rudnick | 1 in 260K | 815 | — | 1 |
| BY Belarus | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Рудник | 14 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 39 | 1 in 54K | 39 | — | — |
7,108 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Rudnik 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 Serbo-Croatian, mine (place from which ore is extracted)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Zofia Rudnikb. 1895PLPolish Righteous Among the Nations
- Jan Rudnikb. 1922PLPolish pediatric pulmonologist
- Tadeusz Rudnikb. 1928PLPolish Righteous Among the Nations
- Eugeniusz Rudnikb. 1932PLPolish composer (1932–2016)
- Raphael Rudnikb. 1933USAmerican poet (1933–2009)
- Stefan Rudnikb. 1935PLPolish historian
- Piotr Rudnikb. 1957BYBelarusian politician
- Barbara Rudnikb. 1958DEGerman actress (1958–2009)
- Adam RudnikPLPolish neurosurgeon
- Agata RudnikPLPolish psychologist
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)32 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3.6K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3.6K | #639 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3.5K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3.5K | #629 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 565 | #39,004 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 543 | #38,320 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 538 | #43,268 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 456 | #18,508 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 39 | #9,042 |
| 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 Rudnik mean, and where does it come from?
- synonym of górnik (“miner”) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Rudnik?
- In Polish /rudɲik/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Rudnik have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 7.1 thousand people named Rudnik, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rudnik.
- Where is Rudnik most common?
- Rudnik is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Rudnik?
- In Poland, the national register counted 7,108 people named Rudnik in 2026, about 1 in 5.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Rudnik compared with other names?
- In Poland, Rudnik is the 897th most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Rudnik?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rudnikThe 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, “Rudnik” — the 897th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.