Zbigniew
given name · Polish · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Zbigniew is a given name, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country, where it is the 45th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Polish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Slavonic; to get rid of anger; common Polish name.
- PLPoland1 in 153◐
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 59K
- CZCzechia1 in 68K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈255K ●
- Sources
- 224 ●
- 1 in 153 ◐
across 10 countries
63K records
Official registry-verified
Poland
Meaning & origin●
Slavonic; to get rid of anger; common Polish name.
Sources 1
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Attested across 5 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 | #45 | 249,852△ | 38K rec. | 1 in 153 | 256K | Zbigniew | 193 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 3,516 | 2.4K rec. | — | — | Zbigniew | 95 |
| US United States | — | 3,132 | 20K rec. | 1 in 106K | 3.1K | Zbigniew | 224 |
| CZ Czechia | #956 | 1,377 | 56 rec. | — | 162 | Zbigniew | 32 |
| SE Sweden | — | 977△ | 62 rec. | 1 in 10K | 977 | Zbigniew | 23 |
| NO Norway | — | 826△ | 312 rec. | 1 in 6.6K | 2.4K | Zbigniew | 22 |
| CA Canada | — | 589 | 513 rec. | — | — | Zbigniew | 55 |
| IS Iceland | — | 230 | — | 1 in 1.5K | 230 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 219 | 0 rec. | 1 in 27K | 219 | — | 1 |
| IT Italy | — | 195 | 183 rec. | — | — | Zbigniew | 28 |
| BE Belgium | — | 187 | 148 rec. | — | — | Zbigniew | 25 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 172 | 3 rec. | — | — | Zbigniew | 15 |
Roughly 250K people in Poland bear this name (about 1 in 153). 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●
- Polish1.4M97%
- English20K1%
- German5.3K1%
- French2.8K1%
- Norwegian Bokmål2.4K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Polish | 1,370,756 | 97% |
| English | 19,989 | 1% |
| German | 5,292 | 1% |
| French | 2,757 | 1% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 2,440 | 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●
Zbigniew is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Polish, a male given name of Slavic origin.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, Zbigniew är ett polskt namn, sammansatt av två namnelement som betyder ’bli av med’ respektive ’vrede’.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
To Get Rid Of Anger
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Common Polish name, from an old Slavonic personal name composed of the elements zbit to get rid of + gniew anger. Cognate: Czech: Zbyhn v. Feminine form: Czech: Zbyhn va. Pet forms: Czech: Zby a m, f; Zbyn k, Zbys k m; Zbyhn (u )ka, Zby a f .
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 |
|---|---|
| 1953 | 9 |
| 1954 | 17 |
| 1955 | 19 |
| 1956 | 17 |
| 1957 | 21 |
| 1958 | 23 |
| 1959 | 33 |
| 1960 | 42 |
| 1961 | 38 |
| 1962 | 28 |
| 1963 | 41 |
| 1964 | 32 |
| 1965 | 31 |
| 1966 | 37 |
| 1967 | 49 |
| 1968 | 36 |
| 1969 | 42 |
| 1970 | 34 |
| 1971 | 34 |
| 1972 | 51 |
| 1973 | 34 |
| 1974 | 24 |
| 1975 | 22 |
| 1976 | 30 |
| 1977 | 18 |
| 1978 | 32 |
| 1979 | 22 |
| 1980 | 19 |
| 1981 | 12 |
| 1982 | 14 |
| 1983 | 11 |
| 1984 | 13 |
| 1985 | 6 |
| 1986 | 11 |
| 1987 | 6 |
| 1993 | 4 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 36 years between 1953–1993. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Zbigniew of Polandb. 1070PLPolish sovereign
- Zbigniew Herbertb. 1924PLPolish writer and poet (1924–1998)
- Zbigniew Brzezinskib. 1928USPolish-American diplomat and political scientist (1928–2017)
- Zbigniew Rybczyńskib. 1949PLPolish film director (born 1949)
- Zbigniew Preisnerb. 1955PLPolish composer
- Zbigniew Raub. 1955PLPolish politician
- Zbigniew Boniekb. 1956PLPolish association football player and manager
- Zbigniew Zamachowskib. 1961PLPolish actor
- Zbigniew Ziobrob. 1970PLPolish politician (born 1970)
- Zbigniew Bródkab. 1984PLPolish speed skater
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 34 sources across 18 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 · 227 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Zbigniew?
- We estimate roughly 255 thousand people bear Zbigniew (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Zbigniew have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 250 thousand people bear Zbigniew in Poland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled zbigniew.
- Where is Zbigniew most common?
- Zbigniew is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 153 people carrying it.
- How common is Zbigniew compared with other names?
- In Poland, Zbigniew is the 45th most common given name of 66,904 given names recorded there.
- Is Zbigniew a male or female name?
- Zbigniew 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 Zbigniew mean?
- Recorded meaning: Slavonic; to get rid of anger; common Polish name.
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Zbigniew” — the 45th most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.