Wiech
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈwitʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wiech is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From truncation of personal names beginning with Wie- (e.g. Wielisław) + -ch. Alternatively, from wiech (“Cicuta virosa”), wiecha, or wiecheć.
- PLPoland1 in 16K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 304K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 467K
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)
- Sources
- 65 (measured from records)
- 1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
2,371 people, 2026
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 Więch in PL Poland, FR France.
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(measured from records)
From truncation of personal names beginning with Wie- (e.g. Wielisław) + -ch. Alternatively, from wiech (“Cicuta virosa”), wiecha, or wiecheć.
Sources 1
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wiech 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 | #880 | 2,371 | 1 in 16K | 1.2K | Więch | 65 |
| US United States | — | 415 | 1 in 802K | 448 | Wiech | 38 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 657K | — | Wiech | 18 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Wiech | 4 |
| FR France | — | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | 5 | Więch | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 18 | 1 in 467K | 18 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 18 | 1 in 304K | 18 | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | — | 17 | 1 in 600K | 17 | Wiech | 7 |
2,371 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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)
- Marceli Wiechb. 1954PLfencer
- Stanisław Wiechb. 1963PLPolish historian
- Martina Wiechb. 1970DEGerman archivist and historian (1970-)
- Jakub Wiechb. 1992PLPolish journalist
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 18 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 604 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 604 | #5,234 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 571 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 571 | #5,675 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 448 | #45,078 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 415 | #50,362 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 399 | #55,517 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 18 | #39,486 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 18 | #43,679 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 17 | #27,903 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 5 | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
- What does the name Wiech mean, and where does it come from?
- From truncation of personal names beginning with Wie- (e.g. Wielisław) + -ch. Alternatively, from wiech (“Cicuta virosa”), wiecha, or wiecheć. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- What are other forms of the name Wiech?
- In the etymology graph, Вех is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Wiech?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈwitʃ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Wiech have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Wiech, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled więch.
- Where is Wiech most common?
- Wiech is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 16 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Wiech?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2,371 people named Wiech in 2026, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
- How common is Wiech compared with other names?
- In Poland, Wiech is the 880th most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Wiech?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wiechThe 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, “Wiech” — the 880th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.