The Wisniewska surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 102 people carried this name — #158,432 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 3,333,300 people counted. That is down 6% from 109 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Wisniewska surname
A transliteration of the Polish surname Wiśniewska.
Transliteration of Polish Wiśniewska.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Wisniewska» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 80 people named Wisniewska.
Most of them — 75 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 4 départements, most often Paris.
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
46 people named Wisniewska live in Switzerland.
They live in 8 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
134 people named Wisniewska 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 Wisniewska,
with a public archive behind them.
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Karolina Wisniewska 1976– · alpine skier
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Wioletta Wisniewska 1994– · basketball player
Wikidata (CC0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Wisniewska.
- Wintz 739 · U.S. census
- Wion 564 · U.S. census
- Wipf 1,950 · U.S. census
- Wirth 9,907 · U.S. census
- Wirtz 4,166 · U.S. census
- Wisler 1,058 · U.S. census
- Wisniewski 12,675 · U.S. census
- Wiss 597 · U.S. census
- Wissen 110 · U.S. census
- Wisser 597 · U.S. census
- Wissler 990 · U.S. census
- Witas 150 · U.S. census
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