The Bednarski surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,455 people carried this name — #18,819 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 204,100 people counted. That is up 5% from 1,382 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Bednarski surname
From Bednary + -ski or from bednarz + -ski.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Bednarski» (Polish), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Poland’s population register
13,731 people named Bednarski have a registered home in Poland.
Of the 15,301 in Poland’s national register, these are the ones with a permanent address on file. They live in all 16 of Poland’s voivodeships, most of all in Masovian.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
PESEL register, Ministry of Digital Affairs of Poland (dane.gov.pl) — CC0 · living people by voivodeship of permanent residence, 20 January 2026.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 113 people named Bednarski.
20 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 21 départements, most often Pas-de-Calais.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 85 people named Bednarski live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Misiones.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In the Nordic population registers
24 people named Bednarski is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Who carried it
People named Bednarski,
with a public archive behind them.
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Wojciech Bednarski 1841–1914 · teacher -
Szczęsny Bednarski 1845–1913 · printer -
Jan Bednarski 1860–1926 · physician -
Stefan Bednarski 1868–1940 · lawyer -
Henryk Bednarski 1882–1945 · athlete -
Janusz Bednarski 1891–1908 · poet
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Bednarski.
- Bedel 649 · U.S. census
- Bedell 5,989 · U.S. census
- Beder 331 · U.S. census
- Bedini 146 · U.S. census
- Bednarczyk 1,103 · U.S. census
- Bednarek 1,311 · U.S. census
- Bednarz 2,462 · U.S. census
- Bedo 199 · U.S. census
- Bedon 215 · U.S. census
- Bedoni 175 · U.S. census
- Bedrossian 467 · U.S. census
- Bee 4,480 · U.S. census
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