Woz

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Eye dialect spelling of was

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Woz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 2.7M(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)

14 people, 2026

Sources
10 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.7M (inferred from the name graph)

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)

Eye dialect spelling of was.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Woz 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.

Where Woz is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland141 in 2.7M10Woz10
US United States——listedWoz8

14 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026, counting the spelling wóz. 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); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Woz is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Wòz

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Wóz, Woź

  • German surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany

    Also written Woź

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy

    Also written Wòz

27 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Woz is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In dsb, superseded spelling of wóz

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Haitian Creole, pink

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Woz
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Woz mean, and where does it come from?
Eye dialect spelling of was. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Woz have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 14 people named Woz, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled woz.
Where is Woz most common?
Woz is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.7 million people carrying it.
How common is the name Woz?
In Poland, the national register counted 14 people named Woz in 2026, about 1 in 2.7 million residents.

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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, “Woz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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