The Piatek surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 906 people carried this name — #26,833 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 322,600 people counted. That is up 13% from 801 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Piatek surname
From Polish Piątek.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Piatek» (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
20,096 people named Piatek have a registered home in Poland.
Of the 22,006 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 Silesian.
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 138 people named Piatek.
53 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 17 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 Switzerland’s population statistics
29 people named Piatek live in Switzerland.
They live in 4 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
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
42 people named Piatek 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 Piatek,
with a public archive behind them.
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Joseph Piatek 1931–1999 · association football player
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Francis Piatek 1944– · painter
Wikidata (CC0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Piatek.
- Pian 115 · U.S. census
- Piana 289 · U.S. census
- Piano 767 · U.S. census
- Piard 166 · U.S. census
- Piarulli 163 · U.S. census
- Piasecki 2,061 · U.S. census
- Piatkowski 582 · U.S. census
- Piatti 189 · U.S. census
- Piazza 8,372 · U.S. census
- Pic 156 · U.S. census
- Picano 299 · U.S. census
- Picard 7,898 · U.S. census
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