Surname WITKIEWICZ

People with the surname WITKIEWICZ in the PESEL register on 20 January 2026: 614 men and 611 women. Most registered in: WIELKOPOLSKIE.

6 verified statements · 1 possible finding

male

614people in the PESEL register · 20 January 2026

about 1 in 34,524

Most registered in: WIELKOPOLSKIE (27.8%, 20 January 2026)

female

611people in the PESEL register · 20 January 2026

about 1 in 35,287

Most registered in: WIELKOPOLSKIE (27.1%, 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

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

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

female

611 people were registered with the surname WITKIEWICZ (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 34,524

#5,128 rank on the surname list

About 1 in 34,524 people counted in the PESEL register (male) bore the surname WITKIEWICZ on 20 January 2026.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

WITKIEWICZ (male) ranked 5,128 among the surnames in this dataset.

Neighbours on the list
  1. #5,119SZOLC615
  2. #5,119SZUREK615
  3. #5,128WITKIEWICZ this surname614
  4. #5,137BANDURSKI613
  5. #5,137BZOWSKI613

female

about 1 in 35,287

#5,271 rank on the surname list

About 1 in 35,287 people counted in the PESEL register (female) bore the surname WITKIEWICZ on 20 January 2026.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

WITKIEWICZ (female) ranked 5,271 among the surnames in this dataset.

Neighbours on the list
  1. #5,266WALENDZIK612
  2. #5,266WRĘCZYCKA612
  3. #5,271WITKIEWICZ this surname611
  4. #5,281HOŁUBOWICZ610
  5. #5,281POTACZEK610

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 546 people with the surname WITKIEWICZ (male) who had a registered voivodeship on 20 January 2026, 27.8% were registered in WIELKOPOLSKIE.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

DOLNOŚLĄSKIE: 4.0% (22)KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE: 2.4% (13)LUBELSKIE: 1.1% (6)LUBUSKIE: 8.4% (46)ŁÓDZKIE: 0.4% (2)MAŁOPOLSKIE: 2.0% (11)MAZOWIECKIE: 6.2% (34)OPOLSKIE: 2.7% (15)PODKARPACKIE: 6.2% (34)PODLASKIE: 3.8% (21)POMORSKIE: 10.3% (56)ŚLĄSKIE: 10.3% (56)ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE: 0.5% (3)WARMIŃSKO-MAZURSKIE: 8.1% (44)WIELKOPOLSKIE: 27.8% (152)ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE: 5.7% (31)

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
WIELKOPOLSKIE27.8%152
POMORSKIE10.3%56
ŚLĄSKIE10.3%56
LUBUSKIE8.4%46
WARMIŃSKO-MAZURSKIE8.1%44
MAZOWIECKIE6.2%34
PODKARPACKIE6.2%34
ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE5.7%31
DOLNOŚLĄSKIE4.0%22
PODLASKIE3.8%21
OPOLSKIE2.7%15
KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE2.4%13
MAŁOPOLSKIE2.0%11
LUBELSKIE1.1%6
ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE0.5%3
ŁÓDZKIE0.4%2

female

Among the 558 people with the surname WITKIEWICZ (female) who had a registered voivodeship on 20 January 2026, 27.1% were registered in WIELKOPOLSKIE.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

DOLNOŚLĄSKIE: 4.1% (23)KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE: 3.0% (17)LUBELSKIE: 0.9% (5)LUBUSKIE: 8.6% (48)ŁÓDZKIE: 0.7% (4)MAŁOPOLSKIE: 3.4% (19)MAZOWIECKIE: 4.8% (27)OPOLSKIE: 2.2% (12)PODKARPACKIE: 7.9% (44)PODLASKIE: 3.6% (20)POMORSKIE: 9.1% (51)ŚLĄSKIE: 10.0% (56)ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE: 1.1% (6)WARMIŃSKO-MAZURSKIE: 7.3% (41)WIELKOPOLSKIE: 27.1% (151)ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE: 6.1% (34)

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
WIELKOPOLSKIE27.1%151
ŚLĄSKIE10.0%56
POMORSKIE9.1%51
LUBUSKIE8.6%48
PODKARPACKIE7.9%44
WARMIŃSKO-MAZURSKIE7.3%41
ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE6.1%34
MAZOWIECKIE4.8%27
DOLNOŚLĄSKIE4.1%23
PODLASKIE3.6%20
MAŁOPOLSKIE3.4%19
KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE3.0%17
OPOLSKIE2.2%12
ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE1.1%6
LUBELSKIE0.9%5
ŁÓDZKIE0.7%4

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 WITKIEWICZ (male) in the PESEL register changed from 627 on 30 June 2019 to 614 on 20 January 2026: −2.1%. 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 31,674627
22 January 20201 in 31,756626
1 February 20211 in 32,082623
27 January 20221 in 32,429623
30 January 20231 in 33,561620
19 January 20241 in 33,834620
22 January 20251 in 34,247616
20 January 20261 in 34,524614

* 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 WITKIEWICZ (female) in the PESEL register changed from 630 on 30 June 2019 to 611 on 20 January 2026: −3.0%. 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 32,142630
22 January 20201 in 32,198628
2 February 20211 in 32,421625
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 34,356622
19 January 20241 in 35,270609
22 January 20251 in 35,362609
20 January 20261 in 35,287611

* 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.

This is a scholarly interpretation, not a measured value. Surname origins are often contested.

Przykłady nazwisk odojcowskich […] na -ewicz: […] Witkiewicz

PossibleScholarly workPoland · ks. Józef Buryan · 1933

Type
patronymic

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 WITKIEWICZ appears on 19,208 pages of works not under copyright and in 982 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 18002
  2. 1800–1849236
  3. 1850–18992,800
  4. 1900–19183,921
  5. 1919–19395,927
  6. 1940 on6,295

Catalogue records by kind

  • Books110
  • Periodicals62
  • Prints and drawings50
  • Manuscripts43
  • Photographs31
  • Ephemera19

Most common places of publication

  • Warszawa10,760
  • Kraków2,557
  • Lwów1,674
  • Poznań911
  • Wilno362
  • Petersburg236

Example pages in the public domain

„WITKIEWICZ Stanisław Ignacy // Witkiewicz: Teatro. A cura di Lamberto Trezzini.”

Polonica Zagraniczne : bibliografia 19691969 · p. 192 · Polona, Biblioteka NarodowaOpen the page in Polona

„O percepcji dzieła plastycznego 14179 Witkiewicz, Stanisław Ignacy (1885-1939) Witkiewicz S.”

Przewodnik Bibliograficzny : urzędowy wykaz druków wydanych w Polskiej Rzeczypospolitej Ludowej R. 61 (2005) = R. 72 - dod.: roczny indeks przedmiotowy (A-N, O-Z)2005 · p. 760 · Polona, Biblioteka NarodowaOpen the page in Polona

„. - 2001, nr 256, dod. s. 20-22 50861 Witkiewicz Stanisław Ignacy ARTYSTA metafizycz nego niepokoju /”

Bibliografia Zawartości Czasopism R. 55, z. 11 (2001)2001 · p. 135 · 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
  • Scholarly work ks. Józef Buryan — Skąd pochodzi twoje imię i nazwisko i nazwa miejscowości rodzinnej? (Zwięzły zarys imiennictwa polskiego) · 1933 · s. 12 (skan ZBC oai:zbc.uz.zgora.pl:82526, str. PDF 14)
  • 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”).
  • This is a scholarly interpretation, not a measured value.
  • 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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