Surname SIEJA

People with the surname SIEJA in the PESEL register on 20 January 2026: 559 men and 595 women. Most registered in: ŚLĄSKIE.

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male

559people in the PESEL register · 20 January 2026

about 1 in 37,920

Most registered in: ŚLĄSKIE (37.2%, 20 January 2026)

female

595people in the PESEL register · 20 January 2026

about 1 in 36,236

Most registered in: ŚLĄSKIE (38.2%, 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

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

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

female

595 people were registered with the surname SIEJA (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 37,920

#5,686 rank on the surname list

About 1 in 37,920 people counted in the PESEL register (male) bore the surname SIEJA on 20 January 2026.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

SIEJA (male) ranked 5,686 among the surnames in this dataset.

Neighbours on the list
  1. #5,679NISKI560
  2. #5,679WRONKOWSKI560
  3. #5,686SIEJA this surname559
  4. #5,696ANTONOV558
  5. #5,696BIAŁK558

female

about 1 in 36,236

#5,421 rank on the surname list

About 1 in 36,236 people counted in the PESEL register (female) bore the surname SIEJA on 20 January 2026.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

SIEJA (female) ranked 5,421 among the surnames in this dataset.

Neighbours on the list
  1. #5,412SEIDEL596
  2. #5,412SYDORCHUK596
  3. #5,421SIEJA this surname595
  4. #5,434IWAŃCZUK594
  5. #5,434STOŻEK594

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 503 people with the surname SIEJA (male) who had a registered voivodeship on 20 January 2026, 37.2% were registered in ŚLĄSKIE.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

DOLNOŚLĄSKIE: 6.4% (32)KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE: 4.0% (20)LUBELSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroLUBUSKIE: 1.0% (5)ŁÓDZKIE: 1.2% (6)MAŁOPOLSKIE: 26.8% (135)MAZOWIECKIE: 3.8% (19)OPOLSKIE: 5.2% (26)PODKARPACKIE: 2.0% (10)PODLASKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroPOMORSKIE: 0.6% (3)ŚLĄSKIE: 37.2% (187)ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE: 2.2% (11)WARMIŃSKO-MAZURSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroWIELKOPOLSKIE: 6.0% (30)ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE: 3.8% (19)

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
ŚLĄSKIE37.2%187
MAŁOPOLSKIE26.8%135
DOLNOŚLĄSKIE6.4%32
WIELKOPOLSKIE6.0%30
OPOLSKIE5.2%26
KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE4.0%20
MAZOWIECKIE3.8%19
ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE3.8%19
ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE2.2%11
PODKARPACKIE2.0%10
ŁÓDZKIE1.2%6
LUBUSKIE1.0%5
POMORSKIE0.6%3

female

Among the 545 people with the surname SIEJA (female) who had a registered voivodeship on 20 January 2026, 38.2% were registered in ŚLĄSKIE.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

DOLNOŚLĄSKIE: 7.5% (41)KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE: 3.1% (17)LUBELSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroLUBUSKIE: 1.5% (8)ŁÓDZKIE: 1.3% (7)MAŁOPOLSKIE: 24.4% (133)MAZOWIECKIE: 3.7% (20)OPOLSKIE: 6.2% (34)PODKARPACKIE: 2.6% (14)PODLASKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroPOMORSKIE: 0.7% (4)ŚLĄSKIE: 38.2% (208)ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE: 1.7% (9)WARMIŃSKO-MAZURSKIE: 0.6% (3)WIELKOPOLSKIE: 6.6% (36)ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE: 2.0% (11)

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
ŚLĄSKIE38.2%208
MAŁOPOLSKIE24.4%133
DOLNOŚLĄSKIE7.5%41
WIELKOPOLSKIE6.6%36
OPOLSKIE6.2%34
MAZOWIECKIE3.7%20
KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE3.1%17
PODKARPACKIE2.6%14
ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE2.0%11
ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE1.7%9
LUBUSKIE1.5%8
ŁÓDZKIE1.3%7
POMORSKIE0.7%4
WARMIŃSKO-MAZURSKIE0.6%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 SIEJA (male) in the PESEL register changed from 612 on 30 June 2019 to 559 on 20 January 2026: −8.7%. 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 32,451612
22 January 20201 in 32,912604
1 February 20211 in 33,146603
27 January 20221 in 34,477586
30 January 20231 in 36,125576
19 January 20241 in 36,355577
22 January 20251 in 36,946571
20 January 20261 in 37,920559

* 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 SIEJA (female) in the PESEL register changed from 600 on 30 June 2019 to 595 on 20 January 2026: −0.8%. 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 33,749600
22 January 20201 in 33,813598
2 February 20211 in 33,772600
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 35,675599
19 January 20241 in 35,919598
22 January 20251 in 36,439591
20 January 20261 in 36,236595

* 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 SIEJA appears on 3,990 pages of works not under copyright and in 66 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 180015
  2. 1800–1849238
  3. 1850–1899999
  4. 1900–1918444
  5. 1919–19391,684
  6. 1940 on608

Catalogue records by kind

  • Sheet music15
  • Books3
  • Articles2
  • Photographs2
  • Ephemera1

Most common places of publication

  • Warszawa1,351
  • Poznań687
  • Kraków302
  • Chicago, IL225
  • Lwów215
  • Katowice167

Example pages in the public domain

„Sieja karmi się głównie drobnemi skorupiakami i mięczakami dennemi, w znacz nej także części drobnemi”

Encyklopedyja powszechna. T. 23, (Saski błękit-Starowiercy)1866 · p. 422 · Polona, Biblioteka NarodowaOpen the page in Polona

„Sieja ma mięso białe, smaczne i zdrowe, ikra jej prawie bezbarwna, przezroczysta, grubo-ziarnista, składaną”

Gospodarstwo rybne i urządzenie stawów1877 · p. 38 · Polona, Biblioteka NarodowaOpen the page in Polona

„Sieja ma mięso białe, smaczne i zdrowe, ikra jej prawie bezbarwna, przezroczysta, grubo-ziarnista, składaną”

Biblioteka Rolnicza. Serja 5, z. 8 (sierpień 1875) = og. zb. z. 621875 · p. 30 · 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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