Stanisław
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Stanislav
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/staɲiswaf/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Stanisław is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 110(measured from records)
- LTLithuania≈1 in 51K
- ATAustria≈1 in 141K
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
- 83 (measured from records)
- 1 in 110 (inferred from the name graph)
348,830 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 Stanislav
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Stanisław 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 | #117 | 348,830 | 1 in 110 | 357K | Stanisław | 83 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 613K | — | Stanisław | 23 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 64 | 1 in 167K | 64 | Stanisław | 12 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 141K | — | Stanisław | 6 |
| LT Lithuania | #902 | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Stanisław | 3 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 176K | listed | — | 4 |
348,830 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); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Stanisław 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, Stanley; Stanislas
as a namePolish Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 24)
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)
- Stanislaus of Szczepanówb. 1030PLnot in their usual namePolish Catholic bishop, saint, the principal patron of Poland
- Stanislas Leszczynskib. 1677FRnot in their usual nameKing of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (1677–1766)
- Stanisław August Poniatowskib. 1732RUKing of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (1764-1795)
- Stanisław Moniuszkob. 1819PLPolish composer (1819–1872)
- Władysław Reymontb. 1867PLnot in their usual namePolish novelist (1867-1925)
- Stanisław Wyspiańskib. 1869PLPolish playwright, painter and poet (1869–1907)
- Stanisław Wojciechowskib. 1869PLPolish scientist and politician (1869-1953)
- Stanisław Ulamb. 1909USPolish-American mathematician
- Stanisław Lemb. 1921PLPolish science fiction author, philosopher and futurologist, studied medical doctor (1921–2006)
- Stanisław Kaniab. 1927PLPolish politician (1927-2020)
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 6 countries.
Reference works 3
- 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 are other forms of the name Stanisław?
- In the etymology graph, Станіслав, Stanislav and Stanislas are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Stanisław have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 349 thousand people named Stanisław, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stanisław.
- Where is Stanisław most common?
- Stanisław is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 110 people carrying it.
- What does the name Stanisław mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Stanislav Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Stanisław?
- A machine transcription gives /staɲiswaf/ (IPA) for Polish.
- Is Stanisław a male or female name?
- Stanisław 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.
- How common is the name Stanisław?
- In Poland, the national register counted 348,830 people named Stanisław in 2026, about 1 in 110 residents.
- How common is Stanisław compared with other names?
- In Poland, Stanisław is the 117th most common given name of 25,969 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Stanisław?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/stanis%C5%82awThe 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, “Stanisław” — the 117th most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.