Zawada
surname · Latin script
Meaning: hindrance, stumbling block, obstacle, impediment
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/zɑˈwɑdə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zawada is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 2.9K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 80K
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 121K
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
- 112 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
13,062 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
hindrance, stumbling block, obstacle, impediment
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zawada 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 | #405 | 13,062 | 1 in 2.9K | 6.5K | Zawada | 112 |
| US United States | — | 774 | 1 in 430K | 774 | Zawada | 96 |
| FR France | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 229K | 26 | Zawada | 1 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 121K | — | Zawada | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 293K | 86 | Zawada | 47 |
| NO Norway | — | 68 | 1 in 80K | 68 | — | 5 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 67 | 1 in 160K | 67 | Zawada | 10 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 128K | — | Zawada | 8 |
13,062 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); MVČR — living population register 2017; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Zawada 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 Slovenian, Slavic "obstacle, hindrance"
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)
- Edward Zawadab. 1922PLPolish chemist
- Andrzej Zawadab. 1928PLmountain climber (1928–2000)
- Robert Zawadab. 1944PLPolish handball player (1944–2024)
- Michał Zawadab. 1950PLPolish physicist
- Tadeusz Zawadab. 1951PLPolish sportsperson
- Sławomir Zawadab. 1965PLPolish weightlifter
- Jan Zawadab. 1988CZCzech soccer player
- David Zawadab. 1990DEGerman mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter
- Oskar Zawadab. 1996PLPolish association football player
- Anna ZawadaPLPolish Righteous Among the Nations
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 28 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6.5K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6.5K | #277 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6.5K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6.5K | #271 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 774 | #30,250 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 774 | #28,912 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 771 | #32,060 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 86 | #36,388 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 68 | #21,138 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 67 | #23,357 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 67 | #9,310 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 53 | — |
Reference works 6
- 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)
- 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 Zawada mean, and where does it come from?
- hindrance, stumbling block, obstacle, impediment Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Zawada?
- A machine transcription gives /zɑˈwɑdə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Zawada have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Zawada, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zawada.
- Where is Zawada most common?
- Zawada is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Zawada?
- In Poland, the national register counted 13,062 people named Zawada in 2026, about 1 in 2.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Zawada compared with other names?
- In Poland, Zawada is the 405th most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Zawada?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zawadaThe 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, “Zawada” — the 405th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.