Wisniewski

11,873 people in the United States were counted with the surname Wisniewski in the 2020 census, making it the 2,964th most common in the country. That is about one person in 25,200.

By the numbers

People: 11,873
Rank: 2,964th
How common: 1 in 25,200
Per 100,000: 4.0

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 Wisniewski described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 93.8%
Hispanic or Latino 2.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Wisniewski

Maryan Wisniewski (1937–2022)French footballer
Andreas Wisniewski (born 1959)German actor
Janek Wiśniewski (1952–1970)Polish worker
James Wisniewski (born 1984)American ice hockey player
Stefan Wisniewski (born 1953)German terrorist

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

Surnames like Wisniewski

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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.