Kowalski

16,721 people in the United States were counted with the surname Kowalski in the 2020 census, making it the 2,102nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 17,900.

By the numbers

People: 16,721
Rank: 2,102nd
How common: 1 in 17,900
Per 100,000: 5.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Polish

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 93.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Kowalski

Daniel Kowalski (born 1975)Australian swimmer
Stanisław Kowalski (1910–2022)Polish sprinter
Killer Kowalski (1926–2008)Canadian professional wrestler
Kerstin Kowalski (born 1976)German rower
Józef Kowalski (1900–2013)Polish soldier
Manja Kowalski (born 1976)German rower
Józef Kowalski (1911–1942)Polish saint
Robert Kowalski (born 1941)British computer scientist

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

Surnames like Kowalski

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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.