Surname DAN

People with the surname DAN in the PESEL register on 20 January 2026: 117 men and 88 women.

6 verified statements

male

117people in the PESEL register · 20 January 2026

about 1 in 181,176

female

88people in the PESEL register · 20 January 2026

about 1 in 245,003

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

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

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

female

88 people were registered with the surname DAN (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 181,176

#25,928 rank on the surname list

About 1 in 181,176 people counted in the PESEL register (male) bore the surname DAN on 20 January 2026.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

DAN (male) ranked 25,928 among the surnames in this dataset.

Neighbours on the list
  1. #25,753ŻÓŁKOŚ118
  2. #25,753ŻURYŃSKI118
  3. #25,928DAN this surname117
  4. #26,120AKHALAIA116
  5. #26,120AMAROWICZ116

female

about 1 in 245,003

#33,064 rank on the surname list

About 1 in 245,003 people counted in the PESEL register (female) bore the surname DAN on 20 January 2026.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

DAN (female) ranked 33,064 among the surnames in this dataset.

Neighbours on the list
  1. #32,751ZAPRZELSKA89
  2. #32,751ZDZICHOWSKA89
  3. #33,064DAN this surname88
  4. #33,384CZAJKOWSKI87
  5. #33,384ISLAM87

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

Only 29.9% of bearers had a registered voivodeship, so this is not the surname's distribution.

Among the 35 people with the surname DAN (male) who had a registered voivodeship on 20 January 2026, 85.7% were registered in MAZOWIECKIE.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

DOLNOŚLĄSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroKUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroLUBELSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroLUBUSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroŁÓDZKIE: 8.6% (3)MAŁOPOLSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroMAZOWIECKIE: 85.7% (30)OPOLSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroPODKARPACKIE: 5.7% (2)PODLASKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroPOMORSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroŚLĄSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroWARMIŃSKO-MAZURSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroWIELKOPOLSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zero

Hover over or tap a voivodeship to see its figures.

Share of people with a registered voivodeship, lowest first:
  • 0%–20%
  • 20%–40%
  • 40%–60%
  • 60%–80%
  • 80%–100%
  • not listed in the dataset — not zero
Shares are of the people with a registered voivodeship, not of every bearer of the surname.
VoivodeshipShareCount
MAZOWIECKIE85.7%30
ŁÓDZKIE8.6%3
PODKARPACKIE5.7%2

female

Only 40.9% of bearers had a registered voivodeship, so this is not the surname's distribution.

Among the 36 people with the surname DAN (female) who had a registered voivodeship on 20 January 2026, 63.9% were registered in MAZOWIECKIE.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

DOLNOŚLĄSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroKUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE: 5.6% (2)LUBELSKIE: 8.3% (3)LUBUSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroŁÓDZKIE: 22.2% (8)MAŁOPOLSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroMAZOWIECKIE: 63.9% (23)OPOLSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroPODKARPACKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroPODLASKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroPOMORSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroŚLĄSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroWARMIŃSKO-MAZURSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroWIELKOPOLSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zero

Hover over or tap a voivodeship to see its figures.

Share of people with a registered voivodeship, lowest first:
  • 0%–15%
  • 15%–30%
  • 30%–45%
  • 45%–60%
  • 60%–75%
  • not listed in the dataset — not zero
Shares are of the people with a registered voivodeship, not of every bearer of the surname.
VoivodeshipShareCount
MAZOWIECKIE63.9%23
ŁÓDZKIE22.2%8
LUBELSKIE8.3%3
KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE5.6%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 DAN (male) in the PESEL register changed from 64 on 30 June 2019 to 117 on 20 January 2026: +82.8%. 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 310,30964
22 January 20201 in 288,10269
1 February 20211 in 266,49675
27 January 20221 in 240,51884
30 January 20231 in 216,75196
19 January 20241 in 211,88799
22 January 20251 in 197,160107
20 January 20261 in 181,176117

* 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 DAN (female) in the PESEL register changed from 54 on 30 June 2019 to 88 on 20 January 2026: +63.0%. 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 374,98754
22 January 20201 in 361,07856
2 February 20211 in 337,72060
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 281,17776
19 January 20241 in 271,89179
22 January 20251 in 265,87181
20 January 20261 in 245,00388

* 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?

We have not searched Polona's collections for this surname yet.

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
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.
  • Only 29.9% of bearers had a registered voivodeship, so this is not the surname's distribution.
  • Only 40.9% of bearers had a registered voivodeship, so this is not the surname's distribution.
  • 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”).

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