Surname DEMSKI

People with the surname DEMSKI in the PESEL register on 20 January 2026: 1,080 men and 13 women. Most registered in: KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE.

6 verified statements

male

1,080people in the PESEL register · 20 January 2026

about 1 in 19,627

Most registered in: KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE (17.7%, 20 January 2026)

female

13people in the PESEL register · 20 January 2026

about 1 in 1,658,485

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

1,080 people were registered with the surname DEMSKI (male) in the PESEL register on 20 January 2026.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

female

13 people were registered with the surname DEMSKI (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 19,627

#2,772 rank on the surname list

About 1 in 19,627 people counted in the PESEL register (male) bore the surname DEMSKI on 20 January 2026.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

DEMSKI (male) ranked 2,772 among the surnames in this dataset.

Neighbours on the list
  1. #2,765MIZERSKI1,081
  2. #2,765PIETROWSKI1,081
  3. #2,772DEMSKI this surname1,080
  4. #2,774BLACHA1,079
  5. #2,774CEGIEŁKA1,079

female

about 1 in 1,658,485

#113,382 rank on the surname list

About 1 in 1,658,485 people counted in the PESEL register (female) bore the surname DEMSKI on 20 January 2026.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

DEMSKI (female) ranked 113,382 among the surnames in this dataset.

Neighbours on the list
  1. #108,701ŻURAWSKA VEL DZIURAWIEC14
  2. #108,701ŻWIROWSKA14
  3. #113,382DEMSKI this surname13
  4. #118,592GRUSZCZYŃSKI12
  5. #118,592IWAŃSKI12

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

The other grammatical form

DEMSKA (female): 1,134 people, rank 2,687 on the surname list on 20 January 2026.

The same surname in the other grammatical gender, on the other list. It says nothing about kinship.

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 943 people with the surname DEMSKI (male) who had a registered voivodeship on 20 January 2026, 17.7% were registered in KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

DOLNOŚLĄSKIE: 15.5% (146)KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE: 17.7% (167)LUBELSKIE: 1.8% (17)LUBUSKIE: 3.7% (35)ŁÓDZKIE: 0.3% (3)MAŁOPOLSKIE: 2.7% (25)MAZOWIECKIE: 4.0% (38)OPOLSKIE: 2.4% (23)PODKARPACKIE: 6.5% (61)PODLASKIE: 1.4% (13)POMORSKIE: 14.5% (137)ŚLĄSKIE: 3.9% (37)ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroWARMIŃSKO-MAZURSKIE: 6.8% (64)WIELKOPOLSKIE: 13.3% (125)ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE: 5.5% (52)

Hover over or tap a voivodeship to see its figures.

Share of people with a registered voivodeship, lowest first:
  • 0%–4%
  • 4%–8%
  • 8%–12%
  • 12%–16%
  • 16%–20%
  • not listed in the dataset — not zero
Shares are of the people with a registered voivodeship, not of every bearer of the surname.
VoivodeshipShareCount
KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE17.7%167
DOLNOŚLĄSKIE15.5%146
POMORSKIE14.5%137
WIELKOPOLSKIE13.3%125
WARMIŃSKO-MAZURSKIE6.8%64
PODKARPACKIE6.5%61
ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE5.5%52
MAZOWIECKIE4.0%38
ŚLĄSKIE3.9%37
LUBUSKIE3.7%35
MAŁOPOLSKIE2.7%25
OPOLSKIE2.4%23
LUBELSKIE1.8%17
PODLASKIE1.4%13
ŁÓDZKIE0.3%3

female

Only 46.2% of bearers had a registered voivodeship, so this is not the surname's distribution.

Among the 6 people with the surname DEMSKI (female) who had a registered voivodeship on 20 January 2026, 33.3% were registered in DOLNOŚLĄSKIE.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

DOLNOŚLĄSKIE: 33.3% (2)KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE: 33.3% (2)LUBELSKIE: 33.3% (2)LUBUSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroŁÓDZKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroMAŁOPOLSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroMAZOWIECKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroOPOLSKIE: 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%–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
DOLNOŚLĄSKIE33.3%2
KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE33.3%2
LUBELSKIE33.3%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 DEMSKI (male) in the PESEL register changed from 1,090 on 30 June 2019 to 1,080 on 20 January 2026: −0.9%. 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 18,2201,090
22 January 20201 in 18,3051,086
1 February 20211 in 18,3031,092
27 January 20221 in 18,5691,088
30 January 20231 in 19,1431,087
19 January 20241 in 19,3871,082
22 January 20251 in 19,5151,081
20 January 20261 in 19,6271,080

* 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 DEMSKI (female) in the PESEL register changed from 12 on 30 June 2019 to 13 on 20 January 2026: +8.3%. 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 1,687,44312
22 January 20201 in 1,685,02912
2 February 20211 in 1,842,11011
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 1,780,79012
19 January 20241 in 1,652,26013
22 January 20251 in 1,656,57813
20 January 20261 in 1,658,48513

* 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 DEMSKI appears on 1,465 pages of works not under copyright and in 28 catalogue records in Polona (searched on 4 October 2026).

VerifiedDigital libraryPoland · Biblioteka Narodowa · 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.

Pages by date of publication
  1. 1800–184941
  2. 1850–1899244
  3. 1900–1918172
  4. 1919–1939529
  5. 1940 on479

Catalogue records by kind

  • Articles7
  • Periodicals1
  • Books1

Most common places of publication

  • Warszawa429
  • Chicago, IL142
  • Poznań137
  • Kraków122
  • Lwów102
  • Katowice77

Example pages in the public domain

„Czyżewski, Oso ba Demski). 3) O przyznanie 5-go zwrotniczego i dwóch stacyjnych na st. De- reżyce.”

Jedność Zwrotniczych : organ Zwrotniczych Kolejowych i ich Kandydatów R. 10, nr 10/11 (październik/listopad 1938)1938 · p. 7 · Polona, Biblioteka NarodowaOpen the page in Polona

„E G Demczuk Sora 03 Smolany E G Demczuk Wasyl 10 12.94 Rumanien E G Demski (Dembski) Johann 17.5.15 Czarnylas”

Sonderfahndungsbuch Polen : Herausgegeben vom Reichskriminalpolizeiamt : Berlin C 2, Werderscher Markt 5/61939 · p. 29 · Polona, Biblioteka NarodowaOpen the page in Polona

„Demski in Kutzen, Kreis Treuburg.”

Ostpreussische Bauernteppiche1937 · p. 69 · 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.
  • Only 46.2% 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”).
  • 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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