Surname RYU

People with the surname RYU in the PESEL register on 20 January 2026: 47 men and 28 women.

5 verified statements

male

47people in the PESEL register · 20 January 2026

about 1 in 451,011

female

28people in the PESEL register · 20 January 2026

about 1 in 770,011

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

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

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

female

28 people were registered with the surname RYU (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 451,011

#51,600 rank on the surname list

About 1 in 451,011 people counted in the PESEL register (male) bore the surname RYU on 20 January 2026.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

RYU (male) ranked 51,600 among the surnames in this dataset.

Neighbours on the list
  1. #50,911ŻYLIS48
  2. #50,911ŻYRADZKI48
  3. #51,600RYU this surname47
  4. #52,345ABELSKI46
  5. #52,345ACHINGER46

female

about 1 in 770,011

#72,506 rank on the surname list

About 1 in 770,011 people counted in the PESEL register (female) bore the surname RYU on 20 January 2026.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

RYU (female) ranked 72,506 among the surnames in this dataset.

Neighbours on the list
  1. #70,966ŻABINSKA29
  2. #70,966ŻEŁUBOWSKA29
  3. #72,506RYU this surname28
  4. #74,137MALICKI27
  5. #74,137ZABOROWSKI27

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 6.4% of bearers had a registered voivodeship, so this is not the surname's distribution.

Among the 3 people with the surname RYU (male) who had a registered voivodeship on 20 January 2026, 100.0% were registered in WIELKOPOLSKIE.

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: 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: 100.0% (3)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%–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
WIELKOPOLSKIE100.0%3

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 RYU (male) in the PESEL register changed from 28 on 30 June 2019 to 47 on 20 January 2026: +67.9%. 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 709,27828
22 January 20201 in 641,26031
1 February 20211 in 605,67333
27 January 20221 in 546,04237
30 January 20231 in 483,90943
19 January 20241 in 456,01746
22 January 20251 in 458,61246
20 January 20261 in 451,01147

* 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 RYU (female) in the PESEL register changed from 13 on 30 June 2019 to 28 on 20 January 2026: +115.4%. 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 1,557,64013
22 January 20201 in 1,555,41113
2 February 20211 in 1,350,88115
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 1,068,47420
19 January 20241 in 976,33622
22 January 20251 in 828,28926
20 January 20261 in 770,01128

* 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 6.4% 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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