Zbigniew
Zbigniew is a boy's name that peaked in 1952, when it was the 2,376th most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 1983. About 20 Zbigniews are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 58.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Zbigniew
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 28
- Estimated living today
- 20
- Median age today
- 58
- Peak year
- 1952
- Best rank
- 2,376th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1952
Notable Zbigniews
- Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928–2017)Polish-American diplomat and political scientist
- Zbigniew Boniek (born 1956)Polish association football player and manager
- Zbigniew Herbert (1924–1998)Polish writer and poet
- Zbigniew Preisner (born 1955)Polish composer
- Zbigniew of Poland (1073–1113)Polish sovereign
- Zbigniew Bródka (born 1984)Polish speed skater
- Zbigniew Religa (1938–2009)Polish cardiac surgeon and politician
- Zbigniew Messner (1929–2014)Polish Communist economist and politician
People named Zbigniew with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Names of 1952
The most popular boys’ names the year Zbigniew peaked:
Zbigniew elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poland boys | Zbigniew | 1,641 birth registrations | 97th |
| Norway boys | Zbigniew | 912 | 150th |
| France boys | Zbigniew | 115 | 1,293rd |
| England and Wales boys | Zbigniew | 3 | 4,749th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Zbigniew: rank by region
In 2025, Zbigniew was given 2 times or more in 12 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Zbigniew | 138 | 8 |
| Kujawsko-Pomorskie | Zbigniew | 164 | 2 |
| Lubelskie | Zbigniew | 140 | 2 |
| Łódzkie | Zbigniew | 158 | 3 |
| Małopolskie | Zbigniew | 182 | 4 |
| Mazowieckie | Zbigniew | 189 | 7 |
| Podkarpackie | Zbigniew | 135 | 3 |
| Pomorskie | Zbigniew | 161 | 4 |
| Śląskie | Zbigniew | 164 | 5 |
| Warmińsko-Mazurskie | Zbigniew | 136 | 2 |
| Wielkopolskie | Zbigniew | 175 | 5 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Zbigniew | 168 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Zbigniew among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Zbigniew | 6 | 9 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.