Surname BERUS

People with the surname BERUS in the PESEL register on 20 January 2026: 387 men and 395 women. Most registered in: WIELKOPOLSKIE.

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male

387people in the PESEL register · 20 January 2026

about 1 in 54,774

Most registered in: WIELKOPOLSKIE (28.5%, 20 January 2026)

female

395people in the PESEL register · 20 January 2026

about 1 in 54,583

Most registered in: WIELKOPOLSKIE (33.2%, 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.

How many people have this surname?

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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

387 people were registered with the surname BERUS (male) in the PESEL register on 20 January 2026.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

female

395 people were registered with the surname BERUS (female) in the PESEL register on 20 January 2026.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

The male and female datasets are separate and are never summed.

How rare is this surname?

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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 54,774

#8,394 rank on the surname list

About 1 in 54,774 people counted in the PESEL register (male) bore the surname BERUS on 20 January 2026.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

BERUS (male) ranked 8,394 among the surnames in this dataset.

Neighbours on the list
  1. #8,373SZCZUKOWSKI388
  2. #8,373ZADKA388
  3. #8,394BERUS this surname387
  4. #8,419ANDRUSZKO386
  5. #8,419BEKER386

female

about 1 in 54,583

#8,397 rank on the surname list

About 1 in 54,583 people counted in the PESEL register (female) bore the surname BERUS on 20 January 2026.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

BERUS (female) ranked 8,397 among the surnames in this dataset.

Neighbours on the list
  1. #8,376KOŁKOWSKA396
  2. #8,376SOBIERALSKA396
  3. #8,397BERUS this surname395
  4. #8,419NOWOTNIK394
  5. #8,419WANDAS394

Two places above and two below on the same list. Surnames with the same count share a place.

Where is it most often registered?

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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 344 people with the surname BERUS (male) who had a registered voivodeship on 20 January 2026, 28.5% were registered in WIELKOPOLSKIE.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

DOLNOŚLĄSKIE: 16.6% (57)KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE: 1.2% (4)LUBELSKIE: 1.5% (5)LUBUSKIE: 3.5% (12)ŁÓDZKIE: 2.0% (7)MAŁOPOLSKIE: 2.3% (8)MAZOWIECKIE: 13.1% (45)OPOLSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroPODKARPACKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroPODLASKIE: 4.4% (15)POMORSKIE: 3.2% (11)ŚLĄSKIE: 5.5% (19)ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE: 17.2% (59)WARMIŃSKO-MAZURSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroWIELKOPOLSKIE: 28.5% (98)ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE: 1.2% (4)

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
Shares are of the people with a registered voivodeship, not of every bearer of the surname.
VoivodeshipShareCount
WIELKOPOLSKIE28.5%98
ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE17.2%59
DOLNOŚLĄSKIE16.6%57
MAZOWIECKIE13.1%45
ŚLĄSKIE5.5%19
PODLASKIE4.4%15
LUBUSKIE3.5%12
POMORSKIE3.2%11
MAŁOPOLSKIE2.3%8
ŁÓDZKIE2.0%7
LUBELSKIE1.5%5
KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE1.2%4
ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE1.2%4

female

Among the 367 people with the surname BERUS (female) who had a registered voivodeship on 20 January 2026, 33.2% were registered in WIELKOPOLSKIE.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

DOLNOŚLĄSKIE: 12.5% (46)KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE: 1.4% (5)LUBELSKIE: 2.7% (10)LUBUSKIE: 1.9% (7)ŁÓDZKIE: 1.4% (5)MAŁOPOLSKIE: 0.5% (2)MAZOWIECKIE: 13.1% (48)OPOLSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroPODKARPACKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroPODLASKIE: 1.9% (7)POMORSKIE: 1.9% (7)ŚLĄSKIE: 7.1% (26)ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE: 19.9% (73)WARMIŃSKO-MAZURSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroWIELKOPOLSKIE: 33.2% (122)ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE: 2.5% (9)

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
Shares are of the people with a registered voivodeship, not of every bearer of the surname.
VoivodeshipShareCount
WIELKOPOLSKIE33.2%122
ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE19.9%73
MAZOWIECKIE13.1%48
DOLNOŚLĄSKIE12.5%46
ŚLĄSKIE7.1%26
LUBELSKIE2.7%10
ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE2.5%9
LUBUSKIE1.9%7
PODLASKIE1.9%7
POMORSKIE1.9%7
KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE1.4%5
ŁÓDZKIE1.4%5
MAŁOPOLSKIE0.5%2

How did this count change between editions of the list?

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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 BERUS (male) in the PESEL register changed from 412 on 30 June 2019 to 387 on 20 January 2026: −6.1%. The whole list changed by +6.7% between those editions.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

As ofShare of the listPeople
30 June 2019*1 in 48,203412
22 January 20201 in 48,604409
1 February 20211 in 49,109407
27 January 20221 in 50,891397
30 January 20231 in 52,812394
19 January 20241 in 53,787390
22 January 20251 in 54,512387
20 January 20261 in 54,774387

* 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 BERUS (female) in the PESEL register changed from 406 on 30 June 2019 to 395 on 20 January 2026: −2.7%. The whole list changed by +6.5% between those editions.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

As ofShare of the listPeople
30 June 2019*1 in 49,875406
22 January 20201 in 50,551400
2 February 20211 in 50,913398
27 January 2022The 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 20231 in 53,424400
19 January 20241 in 53,431402
22 January 20251 in 54,246397
20 January 20261 in 54,583395

* 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.

What does this surname mean?

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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.

Where does it appear in old print?

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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 BERUS appears on 1,311 pages of works not under copyright and in 16 catalogue records in Polona (searched on 5 October 2026).

VerifiedDigital libraryPoland · Biblioteka Narodowa · 5 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.

Pages by date of publication
  1. before 180059
  2. 1800–1849187
  3. 1850–1899370
  4. 1900–1918147
  5. 1919–1939311
  6. 1940 on237

Catalogue records by kind

  • Manuscripts1

Most common places of publication

  • Warszawa507
  • Poznań82
  • Kraków71
  • Lwów66
  • Wrocław57
  • Leipzig43

Example pages in the public domain

„I tak nowsi naturaliści rozróżniają trzy odmiany, mianowicie : Żmija zygzakowata Now. ( Pelias berus”

Przewodnik po Muzeum im. Dzieduszyckich we Lwowie1895 · p. 154 · Polona, Biblioteka NarodowaOpen the page in Polona

„Berus z żoną 1,65 mr., dzieci: I. Berus 10 f,, W. Berus 10 f. J. Berus 10 f. M. Berus 10 f. J.”

Nauka Katolicka (Posłaniec) : bezpłatny dodatek tygodniowy do „Wiarusa Polskiego”. R.8, nr 51 (21 grudnia 1899)1899 · p. 7 · Polona, Biblioteka NarodowaOpen the page in Polona

„A Wal-ZONow-Z W O- Waj- Wrześnioioski- Dla ogrodniczków || .Tund (Coluber berus) || Jar. treść.”

Słownik nazwisk zoologicznych i botanicznych polskich, zawierający ludowe oraz naukowe nazwy i synonimy polskie, używane dla zwierząt i roślin od XV-go wieku do chwili obecnej,źródłowo zebrane i zestawione z synonimami naukowemi łacińskiemi w podwójnym porządku alfabetycznym i pomnożone porównawczym materyałem, zaczerpniętym z innych języków słowiańskich. T. 2, Słownik łacińsko-polski1894 · p. 646 · Polona, Biblioteka NarodowaOpen the page in Polona

Who well known has this surname?

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Who well known has this surname?

We have not looked this surname up in Wikidata yet.

How do we know?

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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