Tanski

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Tanski is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 384K(measured from records)
  • PLPoland1 in 26K
  • FIFinland1 in 80K

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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈6,000 people, est.

Sources
204 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tanski 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.

Where Tanski is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China≈6,000 est.≈1 in 232K—Tanski1
PL Poland1,4741 in 26K1.5K—2
US United States8671 in 384K919Tanski204
DE Germany≈340 est.≈1 in 233K—Tanski51
SA Saudi Arabia≈280 est.≈1 in 121K—Tanski1
FI Finland701 in 80K70—1

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); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Tanski is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Mexico, Cuba

    Also written Tañski, Tański

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Tański

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Tański, Tañski

  • Croatian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Тански

30 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1700180019002000Ignacy Tański, b. 1761Józef Tański, b. 1805Czesław Tański, b. 1862Janusz Tański, b. 1864Tadeusz Tański, b. 1892Juhani Tanski, b. 1947Joachim Tanski, b. 1950Mateusz Tański, b. 1982

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 21 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Tanski
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000919#25,304
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010867#27,732
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020824#30,365
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—70#17,092
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—33—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20268—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—8#157,931
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20264—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—4#242,965
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

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

In which country does Tanski have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 6.0 thousand people named Tanski in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tanski.
Where is Tanski most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tanski is densest in Poland — about 1 in 26 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Tanski?
In Poland, the national register counted 1,474 people named Tanski in 2026, about 1 in 26 thousand residents.

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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, “Tanski”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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