Szymanski
surname · Polish · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Szymanski is a surname, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country, where it is the 20th most common surname. It appears chiefly in Polish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Polish Szymański.
- PLPoland1 in 903◐
- DEGermany1 in 27K
- USUnited States1 in 38K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈53K ●
- Sources
- 317 ●
- 1 in 903 ◐
across 14 countries
85K records
Official registry-verified
Poland
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
From Polish Szymański.
Sources 1
Attested across 15 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 | #20 | 42,412△ | 7.5K rec. | 1 in 903 | 42K | Szymanski | 124 |
| US United States | — | 8,748 | 63K rec. | 1 in 38K | 8.8K | Szymanski | 317 |
| DE Germany | — | 4,121 | 3.7K rec. | — | — | Szymanski | 109 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 3,341 | 2.9K rec. | — | — | Szymanski | 73 |
| AU Australia | — | 1,369 | 1.2K rec. | — | — | Szymanski | 62 |
| CA Canada | — | 1,363 | 1.3K rec. | — | — | Szymanski | 67 |
| MX Mexico | — | 577 | 498 rec. | — | — | Szymanski | 38 |
| BZ Belize | #7 | 528 | 1.1K rec. | — | — | Szymanski | 3 |
| BR Brazil | — | 485△ | 202 rec. | 1 in 437K | 485 | Szymanski | 51 |
| IT Italy | — | 410 | 441 rec. | — | — | Szymanski | 9 |
| NO Norway | — | 330△ | 44 rec. | 1 in 17K | 330 | Szymanski | 8 |
| SE Sweden | — | 210△ | 67 rec. | 1 in 49K | 210 | Szymanski | 17 |
Roughly 42K people in Poland bear this name (about 1 in 903). 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●
- Polish100K51%
- English67K34%
- French9.3K5%
- German5.9K3%
- Spanish2.9K2%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Polish | 100,490 | 51% |
| English | 66,865 | 34% |
| French | 9,286 | 5% |
| German | 5,941 | 3% |
| Spanish | 2,941 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1891 | 4 |
| 1901 | 3 |
| 1911 | 3 |
| 1921 | 230 |
| 1931 | 323 |
| 1941 | 249 |
| 1951 | 367 |
| 1961 | 294 |
| 1971 | 258 |
| 1981 | 246 |
| 1991 | 191 |
FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Arturo Antonio Szymanski Ramírezb. 1922MXCatholic archbishop
- Maciej Matthew Szymanskib. 1926PLPolish architect
- Dick Szymanskib. 1932USAmerican football player and executive
- Boleslaw Szymanskib. 1950PLAmerican computer scientist
- Frank Szymanskib. 1956DEGerman politician
- Holger Szymanskib. 1972DEGerman politician
- André Szymanskib. 1974DEGerman actor
- Jimy Szymanskib. 1975VEVenezuelan tennis player
- Jake Szymanskib. 1981USdirector and filmmaker
- Oliver Szymanskib. 1990DEGerman sailor
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 26 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.8K | #3,697 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 8.7K | #4,059 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.2K | #4,169 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 485 | #17,551 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 367 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 330 | #4,567 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 323 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 294 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 258 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 249 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 246 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 230 | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 35 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Szymanski?
- We estimate roughly 53 thousand people bear Szymanski (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
- In which country does Szymanski have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 42 thousand people bear Szymanski in Poland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled szymanski.
- Where is Szymanski most common?
- Szymanski is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 903 people carrying it.
- How common is Szymanski compared with other names?
- In Poland, Szymanski is the 20th most common surname of 614,248 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Szymanski mean?
- Recorded meaning: From Polish Szymański.
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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, “Szymanski” — the 20th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.