Wiecek
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/witʃɛk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wiecek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 4.5K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 76K
- DKDenmark1 in 451K
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)
- Record sources
- 81 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.5K (inferred from the name graph)
8,540 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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 Więcek in FR France, IE Ireland.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Wiecek 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 | #459 | 8,540 | 1 in 4.5K | 4.3K | Wiecek | 81 |
| US United States | — | 316 | 1 in 1.1M | 316 | Wiecek | 57 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 649K | 44 | Wiecek | 31 |
| FR France | — | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 747K | 13 | Więcek | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | 72 | 1 in 76K | 72 | Wiecek | 7 |
| SE Sweden | — | 22 | 1 in 464K | 22 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | — | 13 | 1 in 451K | 13 | — | — |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 500K | — | Więcek | 2 |
8,540 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026, counting the spelling więcek. 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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)- Magdalena Wiecekb. 1924PLPolish sculptor (1924–2008)
- Miroslav Wiecekb. 1931CZCzech soccer player (1931–1997)
- Margaret WiecekPLpolish-American mathematician
- Michaela WiecekDEgoldsmith and jewelry designer
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 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 316 | #63,218 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 298 | #70,715 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 264 | #69,428 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 72 | #20,046 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 44 | #55,026 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 35 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 23 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 22 | #23,423 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 22 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 15 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 13 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- How do you pronounce Wiecek?
- A machine transcription gives /witʃɛk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Wiecek have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 8.5 thousand people named Wiecek, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wiecek.
- Where is Wiecek most common?
- Wiecek is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.5 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Wiecek?
- In Poland, the national register counted 8,540 people named Wiecek in 2026, about 1 in 4.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Wiecek compared with other names?
- In Poland, Wiecek is the 459th most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Wiecek?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wiecekThe 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, “Wiecek” — the 459th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.