Ostrowski

6,552 people in the United States were counted with the surname Ostrowski in the 2020 census, making it the 5,159th most common in the country. That is about one person in 45,600.

By the numbers

People: 6,552
Rank: 5,159th
How common: 1 in 45,600
Per 100,000: 2.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Polish

Borrowed from Polish Ostrowski. Compare Ostrow, Ostrowsky, Ostrovsky.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 93.6%
Hispanic or Latino 2.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Ostrowski

Alexander Ostrowski (1893–1986)Russian mathematician
Stanisław Ostrowski (1892–1982)Polish politician
Michael Ostrowski (born 1973)Austrian actor
Marek Ostrowski (1959–2017)Polish footballer

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

Surnames like Ostrowski

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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.