Walesa
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname in Polish, Wałęsa
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/vəˈɫɛsə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Walesa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 372K(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 44 (measured from records)
- 1 in 372K (inferred from the name graph)
103 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A surname in Polish, Wałęsa
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Walesa 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 | 103 | 1 in 372K | 54 | — | — |
| FR France | — | — | 2 | Walesa | 44 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | — | — |
103 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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Walesa is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Lech, Polish president (Nobel 1983)
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, principality, Gt. Britain
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Wales [Cymru]
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lech Wałęsab. 1943PLnot in their usual namePresident of Poland from 1990 to 1995 (born 1943)
- Danuta Wałęsab. 1949PLnot in their usual nameFirst lady of Poland
- Jarosław Wałęsab. 1976PLnot in their usual namepolitician from Poland
- Monika Wałęsa-Chorabb. 1983PLnot in their usual namePolish chemist and researcher
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 6 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 54 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 54 | #47,946 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 49 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 49 | #50,850 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 2 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 2 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Walesa mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname in Polish, Wałęsa Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Walesa?
- A machine transcription gives /vəˈɫɛsə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Walesa have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 103 people named Walesa, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Walesa most common?
- Walesa is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 372 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Walesa?
- In Poland, the national register counted 103 people named Walesa in 2026, about 1 in 372 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Walesa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/walesaThe 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, “Walesa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.