Kania

At the 2020 census, 2,755 Americans bore the surname Kania — 11,027th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 108,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,755
Rank: 11,027th
How common: 1 in 108,000
Per 100,000: 0.92

Where the name comes from

From Polish Kania and dsb kanja//kańa; ultimately, from Proto-Slavic *kaňa.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Kania described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 92.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Hispanic or Latino 2.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Kania

Stanisław Kania (1927–2020)Polish politician
Paula Kania (born 1992)Polish tennis player

People named Kania with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Kania

Also a first name

Kania has been given to 613 American babies as a first name since 1981, peaking in 2000. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.