Wydra
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Polish: otter (any mustelid of the genus Lutra)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈwaɪdɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wydra is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 8.1K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 214K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 350K
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
- 79 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.1K (inferred from the name graph)
4,727 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
otter (any mustelid of the genus Lutra)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
How Wydra is read(measured from records)
Wydra is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English68%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Wydra in English.
- Polish14%
otter (any mustelid of the genus Lutra)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German8.2%
from Wendish wydra 'otter'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wydra 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 | 4,727 | 1 in 8.1K | 2.4K | Wydra | 79 |
| US United States | 930 | 1 in 358K | 935 | Wydra | 67 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 350K | 45 | Wydra | 24 |
| CA Canada | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 527K | — | Wydra | 13 |
| FR France | ≈70 est. | ≈1 in 975K | 5 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | 26 | 1 in 214K | 26 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 14 | 1 in 391K | 14 | — | 2 |
4,727 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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)
- Bronisława Wydrab. 1896PLPolish Righteous Among the Nations
- Wiesław Wydrab. 1947PLPolish literary historian
- Tadeusz Wydrab. 1958PLPolish politician
- Thilo Wydrab. 1968DEGerman journalist and author
- Szymon Wydrab. 1976PLPolish singer
- Anna Wydrab. 1979film producer
- Karolina Wydrab. 1981PLPolish-American actress
- Dominik Wydrab. 1994PLAustrian footballer
- Karolina WydraPLPolish pharmacologist
- Dariusz WydraPLPolish researcher (endocrinology, gynecology, obstetrics, cancer in gynecology)
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 20 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2.4K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2.4K | #1,076 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2.3K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2.3K | #1,106 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 935 | #24,949 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 930 | #26,261 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 888 | #28,554 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 45 | #54,231 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 26 | #40,032 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 16 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 14 | #48,472 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 14 | — |
Reference works 5
- 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
- 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 Wydra mean, and where does it come from?
- otter (any mustelid of the genus Lutra) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Wydra?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈwaɪdɹə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Wydra have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 4.7 thousand people named Wydra, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wydra.
- Where is Wydra most common?
- Wydra is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 8.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Wydra?
- In Poland, the national register counted 4,727 people named Wydra in 2026, about 1 in 8.1 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Wydra?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wydraThe 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, “Wydra”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.