Zelinski

surname · Latin script

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

Zelinski is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 234K(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 371K
  • PLPoland1 in 1.4M

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.

United States (measured from records)

1,422 people, 2010

Sources
43 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 234K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Zelinski 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 Zelinski is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,4221 in 234K1.4KZelinski41
BR Brazil5711 in 371K571Zelinski43
PL Poland271 in 1.4M27——
BE Belgium31 in 3.9M3—1
CH Switzerland31 in 2.8M3—1

1,422 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)

Zelinski is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Želinski, Żeliński, Zeliński

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada

    Also written Zélinski

  • Croatian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Želinski, Зелински

  • Estonian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Estonia

    Languages: Estonian, Finnish

    Also written Želinski

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada

    Also written Želinski

  • Ukrainian surname48 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Türkiye

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Uzbek

    Also written Зелинский, Зелінський, Zelinskyi, Зелинський, Zelinskij

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Egypt, United States, Saudi Arabia

    Also written Żelinski

28 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Mykola Zelinsky, b. 1861Paul Zielinski, b. 1911Jerzy Zielinski, b. 1943Siegfried Zielinski, b. 1951Christoph Zielinski, b. 1952Rafal Zielinski, b. 1957Ricardo Putinsky, b. 1959Chad Zielinski, b. 1964Indrek Zelinski, b. 1974Jonathan Jakubowicz, b. 1978

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 13 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Zelinski
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.4K#17,871
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.4K#19,123
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.3K#20,657
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—571#15,119
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202616—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—16#104,611
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20263—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20243#154,370
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20083#122,379
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—3#300,190
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

In which country does Zelinski have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Zelinski, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zelinski.
Where is Zelinski most common?
Zelinski is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 234 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Zelinski?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,422 people named Zelinski in 2010, about 1 in 234 thousand 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, “Zelinski”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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