Surname WODECKI

People with the surname WODECKI in the PESEL register on 20 January 2026: 907 men and 20 women. Most registered in: ŚLĄSKIE.

6 verified statements

male

907people in the PESEL register · 20 January 2026

about 1 in 23,371

Most registered in: ŚLĄSKIE (32.4%, 20 January 2026)

female

20people in the PESEL register · 20 January 2026

about 1 in 1,078,015

Most registered in: ŚLĄSKIE (85.7%, 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

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

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

female

20 people were registered with the surname WODECKI (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 23,371

#3,382 rank on the surname list

About 1 in 23,371 people counted in the PESEL register (male) bore the surname WODECKI on 20 January 2026.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

WODECKI (male) ranked 3,382 among the surnames in this dataset.

Neighbours on the list
  1. #3,375PERZANOWSKI908
  2. #3,375ŻARNOWSKI908
  3. #3,382WODECKI this surname907
  4. #3,388CHROBOT906
  5. #3,388CYMERMAN906

female

about 1 in 1,078,015

#88,672 rank on the surname list

About 1 in 1,078,015 people counted in the PESEL register (female) bore the surname WODECKI on 20 January 2026.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

WODECKI (female) ranked 88,672 among the surnames in this dataset.

Neighbours on the list
  1. #86,242ŻYTECKA21
  2. #86,242ŻYTNA21
  3. #88,672WODECKI this surname20
  4. #91,411LISIECKI19
  5. #91,411PACZKOWSKI19

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

The other grammatical form

WODECKA (female): 967 people, rank 3,215 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 814 people with the surname WODECKI (male) who had a registered voivodeship on 20 January 2026, 32.4% were registered in ŚLĄSKIE.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

DOLNOŚLĄSKIE: 7.9% (64)KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE: 2.2% (18)LUBELSKIE: 3.6% (29)LUBUSKIE: 4.1% (33)ŁÓDZKIE: 2.0% (16)MAŁOPOLSKIE: 5.0% (41)MAZOWIECKIE: 9.8% (80)OPOLSKIE: 3.4% (28)PODKARPACKIE: 1.5% (12)PODLASKIE: 0.5% (4)POMORSKIE: 2.1% (17)ŚLĄSKIE: 32.4% (264)ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE: 18.1% (147)WARMIŃSKO-MAZURSKIE: 1.1% (9)WIELKOPOLSKIE: 3.4% (28)ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE: 2.9% (24)

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
ŚLĄSKIE32.4%264
ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE18.1%147
MAZOWIECKIE9.8%80
DOLNOŚLĄSKIE7.9%64
MAŁOPOLSKIE5.0%41
LUBUSKIE4.1%33
LUBELSKIE3.6%29
OPOLSKIE3.4%28
WIELKOPOLSKIE3.4%28
ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE2.9%24
KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE2.2%18
POMORSKIE2.1%17
ŁÓDZKIE2.0%16
PODKARPACKIE1.5%12
WARMIŃSKO-MAZURSKIE1.1%9
PODLASKIE0.5%4

female

Among the 14 people with the surname WODECKI (female) who had a registered voivodeship on 20 January 2026, 85.7% were registered in ŚLĄSKIE.

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: 85.7% (12)ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroWARMIŃSKO-MAZURSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroWIELKOPOLSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE: 14.3% (2)

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
ŚLĄSKIE85.7%12
ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE14.3%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 WODECKI (male) in the PESEL register changed from 948 on 30 June 2019 to 907 on 20 January 2026: −4.3%. 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 20,949948
22 January 20201 in 21,058944
1 February 20211 in 21,377935
27 January 20221 in 21,889923
30 January 20231 in 22,568922
19 January 20241 in 22,976913
22 January 20251 in 23,259907
20 January 20261 in 23,371907

* 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 WODECKI (female) in the PESEL register changed from 19 on 30 June 2019 to 20 on 20 January 2026: +5.3%. 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 1,065,75419
22 January 20201 in 1,064,22919
2 February 20211 in 1,066,48519
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 1,073,96920
22 January 20251 in 1,076,77620
20 January 20261 in 1,078,01520

* 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 WODECKI appears on 2,474 pages of works not under copyright and in 46 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. before 18001
  2. 1800–1849103
  3. 1850–1899586
  4. 1900–1918377
  5. 1919–1939515
  6. 1940 on892

Catalogue records by kind

  • Books10
  • Ephemera4
  • Manuscripts2
  • Photographs1

Most common places of publication

  • Warszawa1,148
  • Kraków501
  • Lwów316
  • Poznań50
  • Katowice42
  • Chicago, IL37

Example pages in the public domain

„Młody ogień, jakiego już dawno nie czuł dwudziestopięcioletni pan Wodecki, zapala się w jego żyłach.”

Płomienie u brzegów : [nowele]1920 · p. 167 · Polona, Biblioteka NarodowaOpen the page in Polona

„Kiedy podano, pan Wodecki pochylił" się nad talerzem, jadł chciwie, na pytania nie odpowiadał i nie śmiał”

Płomienie u brzegów : [nowele]1920 · p. 168 · Polona, Biblioteka NarodowaOpen the page in Polona

„Wodecki: Nie, bo biją! (Wesołość).”

Walka o socjalizm : sprawozdanie z wielkiego procesu politycznego krakowskiego przeciw Bolesławowi Drobnerowi i tow1923 · p. 19 · 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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