Terlecki
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/tɛrˈlɛt͡s.ki/(recorded in a dictionary) Polish · from Wiktionary
Terlecki is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 23K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 395K
- SESweden1 in 638K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 34 (measured from records)
- 1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
1,652 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Terlecki 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.
1,652 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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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)- Cyril Terleckib. 1540BYCatholic bishop
- Hipolit Terleckib. 1806UAtheologian (1806-1890)
- Władysław Terleckib. 1904PLPolish historian
- Władysław Terleckib. 1933PLPolish writer (1933-1999)
- Ryszard Terleckib. 1949PLPolish politician
- Andrzej Terleckib. 1952PLPolish politician and deputy (1952-2012)
- Stanisław Terleckib. 1955PLPolish footballer (1955-2017)
- Libonb. 1972FRnot in their usual nameFrench comics artist
- Maciej Terleckib. 1977PLPolish footballer
- Josephine Terleckib. 1986DEGerman shot putter
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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.6K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.6K | #1,712 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 410 | #50,851 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 408 | #54,521 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 405 | #48,877 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 115 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 63 | #89,008 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 16 | #29,206 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 13 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 13 | #117,930 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 5 | #68,060 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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
- How do you pronounce Terlecki?
- It depends on the language: in Polish /tɛrˈlɛt͡s.ki/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /teɾleki/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Terlecki have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Terlecki, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Terlecki most common?
- Terlecki is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 23 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Terlecki?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,652 people named Terlecki in 2026, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Terlecki?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/terleckiThe 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, “Terlecki”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.