1,130 people were registered with the surname BAL (male) in the PESEL register on 20 January 2026.
Surname BAL
People with the surname BAL in the PESEL register on 20 January 2026: 1,130 men and 1,067 women. Most registered in: PODKARPACKIE.
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male
1,130people in the PESEL register · 20 January 2026
about 1 in 18,759
Most registered in: PODKARPACKIE (37.6%, 20 January 2026)
female
1,067people in the PESEL register · 20 January 2026
about 1 in 20,206
Most registered in: PODKARPACKIE (40.2%, 20 January 2026)
Each 1-in-X is computed within its own dataset. The datasets are different sizes, so these two figures are not compared with each other.
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How many people have this surname?
The PESEL register publishes two separate surname lists, male and female. We show each figure on its own and never add them up.
male
female
1,067 people were registered with the surname BAL (female) in the PESEL register on 20 January 2026.
The male and female datasets are separate and are never summed.
02
How rare is this surname?
“1 in X” means that roughly one in every X people on this list has this surname. The bigger X, the rarer the name. The rank counts from the most common surname on the list.
male
about 1 in 18,759
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#2,636 rank on the surname list
About 1 in 18,759 people counted in the PESEL register (male) bore the surname BAL on 20 January 2026.
BAL (male) ranked 2,636 among the surnames in this dataset.
female
about 1 in 20,206
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#2,892 rank on the surname list
About 1 in 20,206 people counted in the PESEL register (female) bore the surname BAL on 20 January 2026.
BAL (female) ranked 2,892 among the surnames in this dataset.
Two places above and two below on the same list. Surnames with the same count share a place.
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Where is it most often registered?
The map and the list show the voivodeships where people with this surname have a registered permanent address. The brighter the colour and the longer the bar, the bigger the share.
male
Among the 935 people with the surname BAL (male) who had a registered voivodeship on 20 January 2026, 37.6% were registered in PODKARPACKIE.
Hover over or tap a voivodeship to see its figures.
Share of people with a registered voivodeship, lowest first:
- 0%–10%
- 10%–20%
- 20%–30%
- 30%–40%
- 40%–50%
- not listed in the dataset — not zero
| Voivodeship | Share | Count |
|---|---|---|
| PODKARPACKIE | 37.6% | 352 |
| MAŁOPOLSKIE | 15.8% | 148 |
| ŚLĄSKIE | 10.1% | 94 |
| DOLNOŚLĄSKIE | 7.2% | 67 |
| ŁÓDZKIE | 6.7% | 63 |
| MAZOWIECKIE | 6.0% | 56 |
| ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE | 4.8% | 45 |
| ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE | 3.7% | 35 |
| OPOLSKIE | 2.8% | 26 |
| WARMIŃSKO-MAZURSKIE | 1.4% | 13 |
| LUBUSKIE | 1.3% | 12 |
| KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE | 0.7% | 7 |
| POMORSKIE | 0.7% | 7 |
| WIELKOPOLSKIE | 0.6% | 6 |
| LUBELSKIE | 0.4% | 4 |
female
Among the 946 people with the surname BAL (female) who had a registered voivodeship on 20 January 2026, 40.2% were registered in PODKARPACKIE.
Hover over or tap a voivodeship to see its figures.
Share of people with a registered voivodeship, lowest first:
- 0%–10%
- 10%–20%
- 20%–30%
- 30%–40%
- 40%–50%
- not listed in the dataset — not zero
| Voivodeship | Share | Count |
|---|---|---|
| PODKARPACKIE | 40.2% | 380 |
| MAŁOPOLSKIE | 15.4% | 146 |
| ŚLĄSKIE | 9.3% | 88 |
| DOLNOŚLĄSKIE | 7.8% | 74 |
| ŁÓDZKIE | 6.6% | 62 |
| MAZOWIECKIE | 4.5% | 43 |
| ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE | 3.6% | 34 |
| OPOLSKIE | 3.2% | 30 |
| LUBUSKIE | 2.2% | 21 |
| ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE | 2.2% | 21 |
| POMORSKIE | 1.5% | 14 |
| WARMIŃSKO-MAZURSKIE | 1.4% | 13 |
| KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE | 0.7% | 7 |
| LUBELSKIE | 0.7% | 7 |
| WIELKOPOLSKIE | 0.6% | 6 |
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How did this count change between editions of the list?
The PESEL register publishes its lists every year. We show the number of people with this surname on each edition, beside how the whole list changed. We say what changed, not why.
male
The number of people with the surname BAL (male) in the PESEL register changed from 1,036 on 30 June 2019 to 1,130 on 20 January 2026: +9.1%. The whole list changed by +6.7% between those editions.
| As of | Share of the list | People |
|---|---|---|
| 30 June 2019* | 1 in 19,170 | 1,036 |
| 22 January 2020 | 1 in 19,096 | 1,041 |
| 1 February 2021 | 1 in 19,163 | 1,043 |
| 27 January 2022 | 1 in 19,114 | 1,057 |
| 30 January 2023 | 1 in 19,196 | 1,084 |
| 19 January 2024 | 1 in 18,864 | 1,112 |
| 22 January 2025 | 1 in 18,686 | 1,129 |
| 20 January 2026 | 1 in 18,759 | 1,130 |
* The 2019 files describe their contents in fewer words than the later ones. We read them as the same list: people with their current surname.
female
The number of people with the surname BAL (female) in the PESEL register changed from 1,024 on 30 June 2019 to 1,067 on 20 January 2026: +4.2%. The whole list changed by +6.5% between those editions.
| As of | Share of the list | People |
|---|---|---|
| 30 June 2019* | 1 in 19,775 | 1,024 |
| 22 January 2020 | 1 in 19,824 | 1,020 |
| 2 February 2021 | 1 in 19,885 | 1,019 |
| 27 January 2022 | The publisher's file dated 27 January 2022 repeats the data of the previous edition, so it is not shown as an edition of its own. | |
| 30 January 2023 | 1 in 20,333 | 1,051 |
| 19 January 2024 | 1 in 20,264 | 1,060 |
| 22 January 2025 | 1 in 20,374 | 1,057 |
| 20 January 2026 | 1 in 20,206 | 1,067 |
* The 2019 files describe their contents in fewer words than the later ones. We read them as the same list: people with their current surname.
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What does this surname mean?
We give a meaning only when a scholarly work supports it. We don't guess.
We have no sourced meaning for this surname. We could not find it in any scholarly work we are able to cite here, and we do not guess at meanings.
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Where does it appear in old print?
Polona, the National Library's digital library, searches its catalogue and the text of its scanned pages. We show how many results it returns for this word, and from which years.
The word BAL appears on 437,155 pages of works not under copyright and in 1,030 catalogue records in Polona (searched on 4 October 2026).
These are search results for the word in any inflected form. Some may be another meaning of the same spelling, and they are not a count of people or of mentions of anyone's family.
- before 18005,881
- 1800–184961,175
- 1850–1899163,200
- 1900–191872,193
- 1919–1939114,423
- 1940 on20,044
Catalogue records by kind
- Ephemera519
- Sheet music128
- Books58
- Prints and drawings30
- Articles16
- Manuscripts7
Most common places of publication
- Warszawa143,366
- Kraków42,031
- Poznań35,409
- Lwów35,169
- Paris23,195
- Wrocław12,002
Example pages in the public domain
„Sitterfenfłer, bal, okno z kratką. Sittertlpt, bal , brama z kratką. Sla 1 ^. ber, blask.”
„na nic bal, ja_ki żal, ta_ki & " S ' 1 p p | bal! na nic bal, ja_ki żal, ta_ki pppp p p^g^ bal!”
„błękit pruski, bal SMehwif bleiwas.”
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Who well known has this surname?
We have not looked this surname up in Wikidata yet.
Sources on this page
- Official data Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji — Nazwiska występujące w rejestrze PESEL · 20 January 2026 · CC0 1.0 · Dane pochodzą z rejestru PESEL, Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji, dane.gov.pl (CC0 1.0) · dane.gov.pl
- Digital library Biblioteka Narodowa — Polona · Polona, Biblioteka Narodowa · polona.pl
How to read these figures
- Wykaz nazwisk męskich osób żyjących (wg pola nazwisko aktualne) występujących w rejestrze PESEL, stan na 20.01.2026
- Surnames occurring once are not published; absence from the dataset is not zero.
- The publisher does not state whether the split is by a person's sex or by the grammatical gender of the surname form. The datasets are therefore neither summed nor compared numerically.
- The male and female datasets are separate and are never summed.
- Wykaz nazwisk żeńskich osób żyjących (wg pola nazwisko aktualne) występujących w rejestrze PESEL, stan na 20.01.2026
- Denominator: 21,197,537 people counted in the PESEL register — the sum of the published counts in this dataset, not Poland's population.
- The 1-in-X figure is rounded; the count of people is exact.
- Denominator: 21,560,302 people counted in the PESEL register — the sum of the published counts in this dataset, not Poland's population.
- A permanent registered residence is an address in the register — not an actual address, and not information about a family's roots.
- Shares are of the people with a registered voivodeship, not of every bearer of the surname.
- The size of the list itself changes between editions, so beside the count we show the share of that edition's list (“1 in X”).
- Polona's figures are search results for the word in any inflected form, in the catalogue and in the text of pages of works not under copyright; not every result is the surname.
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