Wesolowski
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/vɪsəˈɫɔfski/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wesolowski is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Polish Wesołowski, from various placenames derived from the adjective wesoły.
- PLPoland1 in 580K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 72K
- USUnited States1 in 104K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 107 (measured from records)
- 1 in 72K (inferred from the name graph)
3,204 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Polish Wesołowski, from various placenames derived from the adjective wesoły.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wesolowski 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 3,204 | 1 in 104K | 3.3K | Wesolowski | 107 |
| BR Brazil | — | 135 | 1 in 1.6M | 135 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | — | 91 | 1 in 550K | 91 | Wesolowski | 6 |
| NO Norway | — | 76 | 1 in 72K | 76 | Wesolowski | 5 |
| PL Poland | #857 | 66 | 1 in 580K | 35 | Wesolowski | 100 |
| SE Sweden | — | 51 | 1 in 200K | 51 | Wesolowski | 9 |
| FI Finland | — | 41 | 1 in 136K | 41 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 19 | 1 in 309K | 19 | — | — |
3,204 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
- Dick Wesolowskib. 1945CACanadian gridiron football player
- Carl A Wesolowskib. 1949CACanadian physician and researcher (born 1949)
- Alexandra Wesolowskib. 1985PLscreenwriter
- James Wesolowskib. 1987AUAustralian soccer player
- Stephanie R WesolowskiUSresearcher
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 25 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.3K | #9,226 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.2K | #10,059 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.1K | #9,946 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 135 | #50,347 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 91 | #29,496 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 91 | #29,285 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 76 | #19,474 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 51 | #12,480 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 41 | #27,425 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 35 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 35 | #63,704 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 31 | — |
Reference works 4
- 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 Wesolowski mean, and where does it come from?
- From Polish Wesołowski, from various placenames derived from the adjective wesoły. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Wesolowski?
- A machine transcription gives /vɪsəˈɫɔfski/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Wesolowski have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.2 thousand people named Wesolowski, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wesolowski.
- Where is Wesolowski most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wesolowski is densest in Norway — about 1 in 72 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Wesolowski?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,204 people named Wesolowski in 2010, about 1 in 104 thousand residents.
- How common is Wesolowski compared with other names?
- In Poland, Wesolowski is the 857th most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Wesolowski?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wesolowskiThe 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, “Wesolowski” — the 857th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.