Szymanski
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Szymanski is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country, where it is the 19th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Polish Szymański.
- PLPoland1 in 899(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 28K
- USUnited States1 in 38K
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
- 361 (measured from records)
- 1 in 899 (inferred from the name graph)
42,571 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Szymański in FR France.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Polish Szymański.
Sources 1
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Szymanski 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 | #19 | 42,571 | 1 in 899 | 42K | Szymanski | 132 |
| US United States | — | 8,748 | 1 in 38K | 8.8K | Szymanski | 361 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Szymanski | 120 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 40K | 191 | Szymański | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 59K | 402 | Szymanski | 91 |
| NO Norway | — | 330 | 1 in 17K | 330 | Szymanski | 9 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Szymanski | 11 |
| BZ Belize | #7 | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Szymanski | 3 |
42,571 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026, counting the spelling szymański. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
- Arturo Antonio Szymanski Ramírezb. 1922MXCatholic archbishop
- Maciej Matthew Szymanskib. 1926PLPolish architect
- Dick Szymanskib. 1932USAmerican football player and executive
- Boleslaw Szymanskib. 1950PLAmerican computer scientist
- Frank Szymanskib. 1956DEGerman politician
- Holger Szymanskib. 1972DEGerman politician
- André Szymanskib. 1974DEGerman actor
- Jimy Szymanskib. 1975VEVenezuelan tennis player
- Jake Szymanskib. 1981USdirector and filmmaker
- Oliver Szymanskib. 1990DEGerman sailor
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 28 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.8K | #3,697 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 8.7K | #4,059 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.2K | #4,169 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 402 | #13,356 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 367 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 330 | #4,567 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 323 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 294 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 258 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 249 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 246 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 230 | — |
Reference works 5
- 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
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 Szymanski mean, and where does it come from?
- From Polish Szymański. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Szymanski have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 43 thousand people named Szymanski, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled szymanski.
- Where is Szymanski most common?
- Szymanski is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 899 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Szymanski?
- In Poland, the national register counted 42,571 people named Szymanski in 2026, about 1 in 899 residents.
- How common is Szymanski compared with other names?
- In Poland, Szymanski is the 19th most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/szymanskiThe 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, “Szymanski” — the 19th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.