Szwarc
surname · Latin script
Meaning: black shoe polish
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʂfart͡s/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Szwarc is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 6.2K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 85K
- UYUruguay1 in 125K
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
- 87 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.2K (inferred from the name graph)
6,211 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
black shoe polish
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Szwarc 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 | #786 | 6,211 | 1 in 6.2K | 3.1K | Szwarc | 87 |
| US United States | — | 301 | 1 in 1.1M | 313 | Szwarc | 84 |
| FR France | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 256K | 29 | Szwarc | 2 |
| AR Argentina | — | 195 | 1 in 233K | 195 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 586K | 68 | Szwarc | 28 |
| NO Norway | — | 64 | 1 in 85K | 64 | — | 3 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 60 | 1 in 178K | 60 | Szwarc | 6 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 27 | 1 in 125K | 27 | — | — |
6,211 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); MVČR — living population register 2017; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
- Marek Szwarcb. 1892PLPolish painter and sculptor (1892-1958)
- Izabela Stachowiczb. 1893PLnot in their usual namePolish writer (1893-1969)
- Michael Szwarcb. 1909PLBritish polymer chemist (1909-2000)
- Halina Szwarcb. 1923PLPolish physician and Polish WWII Resistance member (1923–2002)
- Sabina Zimeringb. 1923PLnot in their usual namePolish-American ophthalmologist and memoirist
- Barbara Szwarc-Krwawiczb. 1926PLPolish ophthalmologist
- Jeannot Szwarcb. 1937FRFrench film director (1937–2025)
- Jan Szwarcb. 1946PLPolish politician
- Monika Szwarcb. 1950PLPolish jurist
- Arthur Szwarcb. 1995CACanadian volleyball 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3.1K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3.1K | #766 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3.1K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3.1K | #768 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 313 | #67,846 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 301 | #65,782 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 282 | #65,668 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 195 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 68 | #42,127 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 64 | #22,285 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 60 | #25,565 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 34 | — |
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 Szwarc mean, and where does it come from?
- black shoe polish Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Szwarc?
- A machine transcription gives /ʂfart͡s/ (IPA) for Polish.
- In which country does Szwarc have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 6.2 thousand people named Szwarc, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled szwarc.
- Where is Szwarc most common?
- Szwarc is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Szwarc?
- In Poland, the national register counted 6,211 people named Szwarc in 2026, about 1 in 6.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Szwarc compared with other names?
- In Poland, Szwarc is the 786th most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Szwarc?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/szwarcThe 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, “Szwarc” — the 786th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.