Szulc
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Szulc is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from Schulz.
- USUnited States1 in 1M(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 1.5K
- NONorway1 in 28K
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)
- Sources
- 134 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
26,233 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Schulz
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Szulc 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.
26,233 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Dominik Szulcb. 1797PLPolish philosopher and historian (1797-1860)
- Josef Szulcb. 1875FRcomposer (1875–1956)
- Bronisław Szulcb. 1881PLPolish-Jewish bandleader and musician
- Eugeniusz Szulcb. 1919PLPolish historian (1919–1991)
- Tad Szulcb. 1926USAmerican writer and New York Times foreign correspondent (1926–2001)
- Witold Szulcb. 1963PLPolish stage actor
- Radosław Szulcb. 1967DEPolish and German violinist and conductor
- Jakub Szulcb. 1973PLPolish politician
- Artur Szulcb. 1976PLSwedish writer
- Władysława SzulcPLPolish Righteous Among the Nations
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 27 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 13K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 13K | #88 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 13K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 13K | #90 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 330 | #65,003 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 320 | #62,531 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 272 | #67,725 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 192 | #8,284 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 112 | #6,618 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 70 | #82,471 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 59 | #19,807 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 58 | #9,255 |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Szulc mean, and where does it come from?
- from Schulz Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- In which country does Szulc have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 26 thousand people named Szulc, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled szulc.
- Where is Szulc most common?
- Szulc is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.5 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Szulc?
- In Poland, the national register counted 26,233 people named Szulc in 2026, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/szulcThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Szulc”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.