Szwec
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ʃvɛk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Szwec is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old Polish szwiec (“shoemaker”), Polish szewc (“shoemaker”).
- UYUruguay1 in 63K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 65K
- ARArgentina1 in 299K
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
- 39 (measured from records)
- 1 in 63K (inferred from the name graph)
585 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Old Polish szwiec (“shoemaker”), Polish szewc (“shoemaker”).
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Szwec 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.
585 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
- Jarosław Szwecb. 1961PLPolish actor
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 17 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 318 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 318 | #10,462 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 267 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 267 | #12,256 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 191 | #95,545 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 187 | #91,404 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 185 | #103,399 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 152 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 54 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 18 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 16 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Szwec mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Polish szwiec (“shoemaker”), Polish szewc (“shoemaker”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Szwec?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃvɛk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Szwec have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 585 people named Szwec, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled szwec.
- Where is Szwec most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Szwec is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 63 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Szwec?
- In Poland, the national register counted 585 people named Szwec in 2026, about 1 in 65 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Szwec?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/szwecThe 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, “Szwec”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.