The Bialek surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,120 people carried this name — #22,856 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 263,200 people counted. That is up 12% from 999 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Bialek surname
From Polish Białek (“type of snail”).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Bialek» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Poland’s population register
13,881 people named Bialek have a registered home in Poland.
Of the 15,057 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 152 people named Bialek.
61 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 20 départements, most often Haut-Rhin.
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 Switzerland’s population statistics
26 people named Bialek live in Switzerland.
They live in 5 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Aargau.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
38 people named Bialek 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).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Bialek.
- Biagi 859 · U.S. census
- Biagini 725 · U.S. census
- Biagioli 144 · U.S. census
- Biagioni 320 · U.S. census
- Bial 102 · U.S. census
- Bialas 877 · U.S. census
- Bian 709 · U.S. census
- Bianchetti 114 · U.S. census
- Bianchi 8,284 · U.S. census
- Bianchini 1,476 · U.S. census
- Bianco 15,278 · U.S. census
- Biancone 112 · U.S. census
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