Wisniewski
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A transliteration of the Polish surname Wiśniewski
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/wɪzniˈɛfski/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wisniewski is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country, where it is the 11th most common surname.
- PLPoland1 in 718(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 26K
- DEGermany≈1 in 27K
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
- 366 (measured from records)
- 1 in 718 (inferred from the name graph)
53,282 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:
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)
A transliteration of the Polish surname Wiśniewski.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wisniewski 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 | #11 | 53,282 | 1 in 718 | 53K | Wisniewski | 146 |
| CN China | — | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Wisniewski | 3 |
| US United States | — | 12,675 | 1 in 26K | 13K | Wisniewski | 366 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Wisniewski | 114 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 39K | 562 | Wisniewski | 105 |
| NO Norway | — | 480 | 1 in 11K | 480 | Wisniewski | 9 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Wisniewski | 15 |
| FI Finland | — | 225 | 1 in 25K | 225 | — | 4 |
| BZ Belize | #15 | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Wisniewski | 1 |
53,282 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026, counting the spelling wiśniewski. 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); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Wisniewski is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, slawischer Familienname in -ski; patronymisch/ortsbezogen. 1179 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
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)
- Maryan Wisniewskib. 1937FRFrench footballer (1937–2022)
- David Wisniewskib. 1953USAmerican writer and illustrator (1953-2002)
- Stefan Wisniewskib. 1953DEGerman terrorist
- Andreas Wisniewskib. 1959DEGerman actor
- Leo Wisniewskib. 1959USAmerican football player
- Steve Wisniewskib. 1967USAmerican football player
- Andrew Wisniewskib. 1981USAmerican basketball player (born 1981)
- James Wisniewskib. 1984USAmerican ice hockey player
- Jonathan Wisniewskib. 1985FRFrench rugby union player
- Stefen Wisniewskib. 1989USAmerican football player (born 1989)
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 31 sources across 18 countries.
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Wisniewski mean, and where does it come from?
- A transliteration of the Polish surname Wiśniewski. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Wisniewski?
- A machine transcription gives /wɪzniˈɛfski/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Wisniewski have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 53 thousand people named Wisniewski, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wisniewski.
- Where is Wisniewski most common?
- Wisniewski is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 718 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Wisniewski?
- In Poland, the national register counted 53,282 people named Wisniewski in 2026, about 1 in 718 residents.
- How common is Wisniewski compared with other names?
- In Poland, Wisniewski is the 11th most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wisniewskiThe 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, “Wisniewski” — the 11th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.