Nadolny
surname · Latin script
Meaning: topographic name from Polish nadol, Sorbian nadol ‘downwards’, denoting someone who lived lower down in a village on a slope, or on relatively low lying ground
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/nəˈdoʊɫni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nadolny is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 256Kas Надольний(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 15K
- DKDenmark1 in 189K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Nadolny itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 69 (measured from records)
- 1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
2,582 people, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Надольний in UA Ukraine and Надольный in RU Russia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
topographic name from Polish nadol, Sorbian nadol ‘downwards’, denoting someone who lived lower down in a village on a slope, or on relatively low lying ground.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nadolny counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
2,582 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Rudolf Nadolnyb. 1873DEGerman diplomat (1873-1953)
- Walter Nadolnyb. 1883DEGerman manager (1883–1958)
- Burkhard Nadolnyb. 1905DEGerman writer (1905-1968)
- Isabella Nadolnyb. 1917DEGerman author and translator (1917–2004)
- Anastazy Nadolnyb. 1937PLPolish Catholic clergyman
- Sten Nadolnyb. 1942DEGerman novelist
- Werner Nadolnyb. 1947DEGerman musician (1947–2023)
- Petra Nadolnyb. 1960DEGerman actress
- Grzegorz Nadolnyb. 2000PLPolish musician
- Stephanie NadolnyUSAmerican voice actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2.5K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2.5K | #1,016 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #22,039 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #23,457 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #24,125 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 727 | #12,207 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 113 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 113 | #27,164 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 31 | #16,245 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nadolny mean, and where does it come from?
- topographic name from Polish nadol, Sorbian nadol ‘downwards’, denoting someone who lived lower down in a village on a slope, or on relatively low lying ground. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Nadolny?
- A machine transcription gives /nəˈdoʊɫni/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Nadolny have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 2.6 thousand people named Nadolny, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Nadolny most common?
- Nadolny is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 15 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Nadolny?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2,582 people named Nadolny in 2026, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nadolnyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Nadolny”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.