Siek
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname from mnd
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈsik/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Siek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 15K(measured from records)
- IEIreland≈1 in 190K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 351K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 61 (measured from records)
- 1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
2,511 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Toponymic surname from mnd. sīk 'small brook, wet hollow'. Bearer count 210+136.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Where in the world(measured from records)
Siek 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 | 2,511 | 1 in 15K | 1.3K | Siek | 61 |
| US United States | 519 | 1 in 641K | 593 | Siek | 46 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈94 est. | ≈1 in 699K | — | Siek | 20 |
| FR France | ≈93 est. | ≈1 in 728K | 21 | — | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 526K | — | Siek | 5 |
| NL Netherlands | 30 | 1 in 576K | 30 | — | 3 |
| IE Ireland | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 190K | — | Siek | 3 |
| EE Estonia | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 351K | listed | — | 3 |
2,511 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Siek 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 German, Toponymic surname from a place/dwelling name referring to Bäche und Niederungen; from mnd. sīpe, mhd. sīfe, mnd. sīk and rīde. Bearer count: 1401.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In German, 'feuchte Niederung' (wet lowland)
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In cdo, IMf, An instrument for ad- /fijlT justing a bdw. Read ie ' .* Hsth.' an oar.
as a wordAn Alphabetic Dictionary of the Chinese Language in the Foochow Dialect
In Afrikaans, ill, sick, unwell
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)
- Stanisław Siekb. 1930PLPolish psychologist
- Jan Siekb. 1936PLPolish sculptor, teacher
- Bartłomiej Siekb. 1977PLresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0003-4950-4771
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 20 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.3K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.3K | #2,346 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.2K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.2K | #2,391 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 593 | #39,947 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 519 | #41,886 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 505 | #40,761 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 30 | #41,009 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 21 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 20 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 4 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Siek come from?
- Toponymic surname from mnd. sīk 'small brook, wet hollow'. Bearer count 210+136. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- How do you pronounce Siek?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈsik/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Siek mean?
- Recorded meaning: Toponymic surname from mnd.
- In which country does Siek have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 2.5 thousand people named Siek, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled siek.
- Where is Siek most common?
- Siek is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 15 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Siek?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2,511 people named Siek 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/siekThe 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, “Siek”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.