Surname RYDZEK

People with the surname RYDZEK in the PESEL register on 20 January 2026: 151 men and 172 women.

6 verified statements

male

151people in the PESEL register · 20 January 2026

about 1 in 140,381

Most registered in: ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE (40.8%, 20 January 2026)

female

172people in the PESEL register · 20 January 2026

about 1 in 125,351

Most registered in: ŚLĄSKIE (40.0%, 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

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

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

female

172 people were registered with the surname RYDZEK (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 140,381

#20,761 rank on the surname list

About 1 in 140,381 people counted in the PESEL register (male) bore the surname RYDZEK on 20 January 2026.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

RYDZEK (male) ranked 20,761 among the surnames in this dataset.

Neighbours on the list
  1. #20,632WOJTYŁO152
  2. #20,632ZELMAN152
  3. #20,761RYDZEK this surname151
  4. #20,872ACHRAMOWICZ150
  5. #20,872ANDRUSYSHYN150

female

about 1 in 125,351

#18,834 rank on the surname list

About 1 in 125,351 people counted in the PESEL register (female) bore the surname RYDZEK on 20 January 2026.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

RYDZEK (female) ranked 18,834 among the surnames in this dataset.

Neighbours on the list
  1. #18,736TSYHANKOVA173
  2. #18,736WASILKOWSKA173
  3. #18,834RYDZEK this surname172
  4. #18,941MALINOWSKI171
  5. #18,941OSTROWSKI171

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 125 people with the surname RYDZEK (male) who had a registered voivodeship on 20 January 2026, 40.8% were registered in ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

DOLNOŚLĄSKIE: 4.8% (6)KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroLUBELSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroLUBUSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroŁÓDZKIE: 1.6% (2)MAŁOPOLSKIE: 3.2% (4)MAZOWIECKIE: 4.8% (6)OPOLSKIE: 3.2% (4)PODKARPACKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroPODLASKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroPOMORSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroŚLĄSKIE: 37.6% (47)ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE: 40.8% (51)WARMIŃSKO-MAZURSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroWIELKOPOLSKIE: 4.0% (5)ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE: 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
ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE40.8%51
ŚLĄSKIE37.6%47
DOLNOŚLĄSKIE4.8%6
MAZOWIECKIE4.8%6
WIELKOPOLSKIE4.0%5
MAŁOPOLSKIE3.2%4
OPOLSKIE3.2%4
ŁÓDZKIE1.6%2

female

Among the 145 people with the surname RYDZEK (female) who had a registered voivodeship on 20 January 2026, 40.0% were registered in ŚLĄSKIE.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

DOLNOŚLĄSKIE: 8.3% (12)KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroLUBELSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroLUBUSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroŁÓDZKIE: 1.4% (2)MAŁOPOLSKIE: 2.8% (4)MAZOWIECKIE: 6.2% (9)OPOLSKIE: 2.8% (4)PODKARPACKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroPODLASKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroPOMORSKIE: 1.4% (2)ŚLĄSKIE: 40.0% (58)ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE: 32.4% (47)WARMIŃSKO-MAZURSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroWIELKOPOLSKIE: 4.8% (7)ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE: 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
ŚLĄSKIE40.0%58
ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE32.4%47
DOLNOŚLĄSKIE8.3%12
MAZOWIECKIE6.2%9
WIELKOPOLSKIE4.8%7
MAŁOPOLSKIE2.8%4
OPOLSKIE2.8%4
ŁÓDZKIE1.4%2
POMORSKIE1.4%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 RYDZEK (male) in the PESEL register changed from 161 on 30 June 2019 to 151 on 20 January 2026: −6.2%. 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 123,353161
22 January 20201 in 123,472161
1 February 20211 in 127,307157
27 January 20221 in 131,192154
30 January 20231 in 135,117154
19 January 20241 in 138,005152
22 January 20251 in 139,710151
20 January 20261 in 140,381151

* 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 RYDZEK (female) in the PESEL register changed from 175 on 30 June 2019 to 172 on 20 January 2026: −1.7%. 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 115,710175
22 January 20201 in 114,239177
2 February 20211 in 117,128173
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 125,703170
19 January 20241 in 127,097169
22 January 20251 in 126,680170
20 January 20261 in 125,351172

* 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.

Which localities have this name?

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Which localities have this name?

The TERYT register, Poland's official list of localities, holds localities named the same as this surname. We show them with their gmina, powiat and voivodeship.

The TERYT register lists 1 locality named RYDZEK (as of 1 January 2026).

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · GUS · 1 January 2026

A shared name in the register. It does not say where the surname began, or that the surname and these places are connected.

  • Rydzekother localitygmina Lasowice Wielkie, powiat kluczborski, OPOLSKIE voivodeship

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
  • Official data GUS — TERYT · 1 January 2026 · api.stat.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.
  • 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”).
  • A shared name in the register. It does not say where the surname began, or that the surname and these places are connected.
  • Whole localities only, as SIMC lists them, without parts of a locality, under the register's official name.

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