Ryszard
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Richard
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ryszard is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country, where it is the 41st most common given name.
- PLPoland1 in 202(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 70K
- USUnited States1 in 191K
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
- 186 (measured from records)
- 1 in 202 (inferred from the name graph)
189,302 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a male given name, equivalent to English Richard
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ryszard 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 | #41 | 189,302 | 1 in 202 | 195K | Ryszard | 185 |
| CN China | — | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 284K | — | Ryszard | 8 |
| US United States | — | 1,738 | 1 in 191K | 1.7K | Ryszard | 186 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 70K | 4 | Ryszard | 100 |
| SE Sweden | — | 720 | 1 in 14K | 720 | Ryszard | 30 |
| NO Norway | — | 389 | 1 in 14K | 1.1K | Ryszard | 14 |
| DK Denmark | — | 115 | 1 in 51K | 115 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | — | 54 | 1 in 6.5K | 54 | — | — |
189,302 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 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 given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); 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); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Ryszard is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Polish, Richard
as a namePolish Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 24)
Polish form of RICHARD .
as a word
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)
- Richard Boleslawskib. 1889USnot in their usual namePolish theatre and film director, actor (1889–1937)
- Ryszard Kaczorowskib. 1919PLPolish statesman, Last President of Poland in Exile (1919–2010)
- Ryszard Ronczewskib. 1930PLPolish actor (1930–2020)
- Ryszard Kapuścińskib. 1932PLPolish journalist, photographer, poet and author (1932–2007)
- Janusz Korwin-Mikkeb. 1942PLnot in their usual namePolish far-right politician and publicist (born 1942)
- Ryszard Bugajskib. 1943PLPolish film director, screenwriter, writer (1943-2019)
- Ryszard Szurkowskib. 1946PLPolish road bicycle racer (1946-2021)
- Ryszard Lenczewskib. 1948PLPolish cinematographer
- Ryszard Terleckib. 1949PLPolish politician
- Michał Żewłakowb. 1976PLnot in their usual namePolish association football player
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 43 sources across 22 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name 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
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 Ryszard mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Richard Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Ryszard a male or female name?
- Ryszard is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Ryszard?
- In the etymology graph, Richard, Ricardo and Rick are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Ryszard have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 189 thousand people named Ryszard, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ryszard.
- Where is Ryszard most common?
- Ryszard is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 202 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ryszard?
- In Poland, the national register counted 189,302 people named Ryszard in 2026, about 1 in 202 residents.
- How common is Ryszard compared with other names?
- In Poland, Ryszard is the 41st most common given name of 25,969 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ryszardThe 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, “Ryszard” — the 41st most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.