The KOWAL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,290	7173	0.002	16
United States (1880 census)	-1	112645	0	0
Change since 1880	+4291	+105472	+N/A	+N/A
Other Countries
Australia	175	8533	0.001	11
United Kingdom	196	16655	0	4

Top States for KOWAL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	635	2831	0.003	33
Illinois	415	2911	0.003	33
New Jersey	389	2247	0.005	46
Massachusetts	311	2648	0.005	49
Pennsylvania	305	4673	0.002	25
Top States for KOWAL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Rhode Island	79	1927	0.008	75
Massachusetts	311	2648	0.005	49
Connecticut	162	2600	0.005	48
New Jersey	389	2247	0.005	46
Alaska	23	3798	0.004	37

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called KOWAL live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called KOWAL represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called KOWAL in New York than any other state, but you are more likely to find a KOWAL by picking someone at random in Rhode Island than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of KOWAL

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Poland

Language of origin: Polish

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the KOWAL surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of KOWAL in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	55	1.28
Mixed Race	54	1.26
Asian/Pacific	27	0.63
White (Caucasian)	4,140	96.5
Black/African American	Less than 100	Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the KOWAL surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to KOWAL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KOWAL.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.