Wysocki
surname · Latin script
Meaning: name from a placename such as Wysocko or Wysoko (named from Pol
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/vɪˈsɑtski/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wysocki is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 2.5K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 70K
- NONorway1 in 37K
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
- 150 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
15,607 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
name from a placename such as Wysocko or Wysoko (named from Pol. wysoki high), with the addition of -ski, suffix of local surnames (see Baranowski). Var.: Pol.: Wysokihski. Wynniatt see Wingate
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wysocki 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 | #140 | 15,607 | 1 in 2.5K | 15K | Wysocki | 117 |
| CN China | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 126K | — | Wysocki | 2 |
| US United States | — | 4,758 | 1 in 70K | 4.9K | Wysocki | 150 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 102K | 191 | Wysocki | 56 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 170K | — | Wysocki | 2 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 96K | — | Wysocki | 19 |
| NO Norway | — | 146 | 1 in 37K | 146 | Wysocki | 7 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Wysocki | 12 |
15,607 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); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
- Piotr Wysockib. 1797PLNovember Uprising participant (1797–1875)
- Walery Wysockib. 1835PLPolish singer and opera singer (1835-1907)
- Włodzimierz Wysockib. 1846UAPolish poet (1846-1894)
- Alexander Vyssotskyb. 1888USnot in their usual nameastronomer (1888–1973)
- Lucian Wysockib. 1899DEGerman politician (1899-1964)
- Piotr Wysockib. 1936PLPolish actor
- Józef Wysockib. 1940PLPolish priest
- Wojciech Wysockib. 1953PLPolish actor
- Przemysław Wysockib. 1989PLPolish footballer
- Jacob Wysockib. 1990USAmerican actor and comedian
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 26 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 15K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 15K | #68 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.9K | #6,371 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.8K | #7,035 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.3K | #7,440 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 191 | #21,947 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 146 | #10,801 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 118 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 118 | #26,321 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- Where does the name Wysocki come from?
- name from a placename such as Wysocko or Wysoko (named from Pol. wysoki high), with the addition of -ski, suffix of local surnames (see Baranowski). Var.: Pol.: Wysokihski. Wynniatt see Wingate Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Wysocki?
- A machine transcription gives /vɪˈsɑtski/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Wysocki mean?
- Recorded meaning: name from a placename such as Wysocko or Wysoko (named from Pol.
- In which country does Wysocki have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 16 thousand people named Wysocki, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wysocki.
- Where is Wysocki most common?
- Wysocki is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.5 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Wysocki?
- In Poland, the national register counted 15,607 people named Wysocki in 2026, about 1 in 2.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Wysocki compared with other names?
- In Poland, Wysocki is the 140th most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wysockiThe 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, “Wysocki” — the 140th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.