Ryszard
given name · Polish · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ryszard is a given name, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country, where it is the 66th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Polish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Richard.
- PLPoland1 in 202◐
- CZCzechia1 in 75K
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 108K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈193K ●
- Sources
- 173 ●
- 1 in 202 ◐
across 13 countries
36K records
Official registry-verified
Poland
Meaning & origin●
a male given name, equivalent to English Richard
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #66 | 189,300△ | 21K rec. | 1 in 202 | 195K | Ryszard | 173 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,916 | 1.2K rec. | — | 4 | Ryszard | 91 |
| US United States | — | 1,731 | 12K rec. | 1 in 192K | 1.7K | Ryszard | 166 |
| SE Sweden | — | 720△ | 57 rec. | 1 in 14K | 720 | Ryszard | 26 |
| NO Norway | — | 389△ | 153 rec. | 1 in 14K | 1.1K | Ryszard | 14 |
| CA Canada | — | 275 | 229 rec. | — | — | Ryszard | 45 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 158 | 162 rec. | — | — | Ryszard | 5 |
| IS Iceland | — | 154 | — | 1 in 2.3K | 154 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | — | 142△ | 27 rec. | 1 in 75K | 142 | Ryszard | 29 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 118 | 2 rec. | — | — | Ryszard | 4 |
| DK Denmark | — | 115 | — | 1 in 51K | 115 | — | — |
| IT Italy | — | 103 | 103 rec. | — | listed | Ryszard | 15 |
Roughly 189K people in Poland bear this name (about 1 in 202). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Polish1.1M98%
- English12K1%
- German3.2K1%
- Finnish1.6K1%
- French1.5K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Polish | 1,076,130 | 98% |
| English | 11,918 | 1% |
| German | 3,229 | 1% |
| Finnish | 1,601 | 1% |
| French | 1,451 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Ryszard 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 Polish, Richard
as a namePolish Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 24)
Polish form of RICHARD .
as a word
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1952 | 10 |
| 1953 | 8 |
| 1954 | 15 |
| 1955 | 11 |
| 1956 | 25 |
| 1957 | 15 |
| 1958 | 17 |
| 1959 | 14 |
| 1960 | 14 |
| 1961 | 26 |
| 1962 | 14 |
| 1963 | 27 |
| 1964 | 20 |
| 1965 | 20 |
| 1966 | 7 |
| 1967 | 13 |
| 1968 | 19 |
| 1969 | 8 |
| 1970 | 13 |
| 1971 | 21 |
| 1972 | 8 |
| 1973 | 22 |
| 1974 | 15 |
| 1975 | 9 |
| 1976 | 10 |
| 1977 | 10 |
| 1978 | 8 |
| 1979 | 5 |
| 1980 | 6 |
| 1981 | 4 |
| 1982 | 4 |
| 1983 | 6 |
| 1987 | 5 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 33 years between 1952–1987. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Richard Boleslawskib. 1889USnot in their usual namePolish theatre and film director, actor (1889–1937)
- Ryszard Kaczorowskib. 1919PLPolish statesman, Last President of Poland in Exile (1919–2010)
- Ryszard Ronczewskib. 1930PLPolish actor (1930–2020)
- Ryszard Kapuścińskib. 1932PLPolish journalist, photographer, poet and author (1932–2007)
- Janusz Korwin-Mikkeb. 1942PLnot in their usual namePolish far-right politician and publicist (born 1942)
- Ryszard Bugajskib. 1943PLPolish film director, screenwriter, writer (1943-2019)
- Ryszard Szurkowskib. 1946PLPolish road bicycle racer (1946-2021)
- Ryszard Lenczewskib. 1948PLPolish cinematographer
- Ryszard Terleckib. 1949PLPolish politician
- Michał Żewłakowb. 1976PLnot in their usual namePolish association football player
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●
Attested in 42 sources across 22 countries.
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name 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 2026-09-12 data build · 259 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ryszard?
- We estimate roughly 193 thousand people bear Ryszard (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ryszard have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 189 thousand people bear Ryszard in Poland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled ryszard.
- Where is Ryszard most common?
- Ryszard is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 202 people carrying it.
- How common is Ryszard compared with other names?
- In Poland, Ryszard is the 66th most common given name of 66,904 given names recorded there.
- Is Ryszard a male or female name?
- Ryszard is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Ryszard mean?
- Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Richard
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Ryszard” — the 66th most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.