Szlag
surname · Latin script
Meaning: stroke (loss of brain function arising when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted)
/ʃlaɡ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Szlag is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 143K(measured from records)
- USUnited States≈1 in 6.1M
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
- 20 (measured from records)
- 1 in 143K (inferred from the name graph)
267 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
stroke (loss of brain function arising when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Szlag 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 | 267 | 1 in 143K | 134 | Szlag | 20 |
| US United States | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 6.1M | listed | Szlag | 6 |
267 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); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 134 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 134 | #23,192 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 133 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 133 | #23,847 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Szlag mean, and where does it come from?
- stroke (loss of brain function arising when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Szlag?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃlaɡ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Szlag have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 267 people named Szlag, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled szlag.
- Where is Szlag most common?
- Szlag is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 143 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Szlag?
- In Poland, the national register counted 267 people named Szlag in 2026, about 1 in 143 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/szlagThe 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, “Szlag”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.