Pytel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: flour, from Pol. pytel bolting cloth, sieve
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈpɪtəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pytel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 4.6K(measured from records)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 158K
- CZCzechia1 in 69K
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 Pytel 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
- 96 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.6K (inferred from the name graph)
8,270 people, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Пытель in BY Belarus, CN China.
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)
flour, from Pol. pytel bolting cloth, sieve.
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pytel 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 | #677 | 8,270 | 1 in 4.6K | 4.1K | Pytel | 96 |
| CN China | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 528K | — | Пытель | 1 |
| US United States | — | 676 | 1 in 492K | 805 | Pytel | 54 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Pytel | 1 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 158K | — | Pytel | 11 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 156 | 1 in 69K | 158 | Pytel | 23 |
| BY Belarus | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Пытель | 11 |
| SK Slovakia | — | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 84K | — | Pytel | 13 |
8,270 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; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end). 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)
Pytel is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Polish, flour sifting bag (bag made of light, loosely woven fabric, used to sift flour after milling to remove the bran)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In zlw-ocs, bag; sack (cover made of coarse fabric or leather for carrying or storing various things)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In zlw-opl, type of bag-shaped sieve used for sifting flour
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, bag, sack (flexible container)
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)
- József Pytelb. 1944HUHungarian academic
- Krzysztof Pytelb. 1945PLchess player (1945–2019)
- Bożena Pytelb. 1945PLWoman International Master chess player
- Janusz Pytelb. 1950photographer
- Jolanta Pytelb. 1952PLPolish writer and poet
- Henryk Pytelb. 1955PLPolish ice hockey player (1955–2024)
- Waldemar Pytelb. 1958PLPolish ordination
- Jacek Pytelb. 1966PLCEO of TAURON Extraction
- Bence Pytelb. 1997HUbadminton player
- Gergő Pytelb. 1999HUbadminton player
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 28 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4.1K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4.1K | #510 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4.1K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4.1K | #499 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 805 | #30,920 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 762 | #29,261 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 676 | #33,695 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 158 | #6,240 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 156 | #10,841 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- 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)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
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 Pytel mean, and where does it come from?
- flour, from Pol. pytel bolting cloth, sieve. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- How do you pronounce Pytel?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈpɪtəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Pytel have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 8.3 thousand people named Pytel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pytel.
- Where is Pytel most common?
- Pytel is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.6 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pytel?
- In Poland, the national register counted 8,270 people named Pytel in 2026, about 1 in 4.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Pytel compared with other names?
- In Poland, Pytel is the 677th most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pytelThe 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, “Pytel” — the 677th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.