Pych
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈpɘx/(recorded in a dictionary) Polish · from Wiktionary
Pych is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From pycha, pych, or pchać.
- PLPoland1 in 29K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 714K
- BEBelgium1 in 1.5M
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 Pych itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 46 (measured from records)
- 1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)
1,305 people, 2026
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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)From pycha, pych, or pchać.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Pych 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 1,305 | 1 in 29K | 659 | Pych | 46 |
| US United States | 148 | 1 in 2.2M | 156 | Pych | 16 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Pych | 7 |
| CA Canada | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 897K | — | Pych | 3 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Pych | 3 |
| CZ Czechia | 15 | 1 in 714K | 15 | — | 3 |
| BE Belgium | 8 | 1 in 1.5M | 8 | — | 2 |
1,305 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 2020; MVČR — living population register 2017; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Pych is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, Sava Pych. 15th Century.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Czech, theft of crops or livestock
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Rick PychUSAmerican professional sports executive
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 659 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 659 | #4,880 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 646 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 646 | #4,891 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 156 | #117,879 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 148 | #117,480 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 137 | #117,538 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 15 | #63,112 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 8 | #80,432 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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 Pych mean, and where does it come from?
- From pycha, pych, or pchać. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Pych?
- In Polish /ˈpɘx/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Pych have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Pych, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pych.
- Where is Pych most common?
- Pych is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 29 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pych?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,305 people named Pych in 2026, about 1 in 29 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/pychThe 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, “Pych”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.