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The Piekarz surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 355 people carried this name — #57,372 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 833,300 people counted. About the same as in 2000 (354).

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What the name means

The meaning of the Piekarz surname

From piekarz (“baker”).

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Piekarz» (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

4,050 people named Piekarz have a registered home in Poland.

Of the 4,418 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 Lesser Poland.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they live today

Lesser Poland 1,207
Subcarpathian 608
Lublin 429
Lower Silesian 389
Silesian 355
Masovian 301
Kuyavian-Pomeranian 136
West Pomeranian 131

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 54 people named Piekarz.

19 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 13 départements, most often Aisne.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they were born

Born outside France 19
Aisne 9
Vienne 5
Paris 4
Nord 3
Oise 3
Yvelines 3
Seine-et-Marne 2
Charente 1

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

Who carried it

People named Piekarz,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Henryk Piekarz 1907–1939 · association football player
  • Mendel Piekarz 1922–2011 · historian
  • Tadeusz Piekarz 1941–2005
  • Przemysław Piekarz 1970– · physicist
  • Angelika Modlińska-Piekarz 1974–2020 · philologist

Wikidata (CC0).

Nearby in the index

Surnames next to Piekarz.

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