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The KOWALSKI surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 18,134 1817 0.007 67
United States (1880 census) 175 21289 0 3
Change since 1880 +17959 +19472 +N/A +64
Other Countries
Australia 476 3360 0.003 29
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for KOWALSKI by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 2,348 383 0.024 236
New York 1,959 862 0.010 103
Illinois 1,851 609 0.015 149
Pennsylvania 1,573 813 0.013 128
Wisconsin 1,156 407 0.022 216
Top States for KOWALSKI by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 2,348 383 0.024 236
Wisconsin 1,156 407 0.022 216
Connecticut 556 647 0.016 163
Illinois 1,851 609 0.015 149
Delaware 113 1198 0.014 144

Notes

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

Classification and Origin of KOWALSKI

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 KOWALSKI 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 KOWALSKI in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 232 1.28
Mixed Race 187 1.03
Asian/Pacific 56 0.31
Black/African American 51 0.28
Native American/Alaskan 36 0.2
White (Caucasian) 17,572 96.9

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

Meaning of KOWALSKI in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of KOWALSKI.

Similar names to KOWALSKI

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KOWALSKI.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for KOWALSKI

The following words are slight variants of KOWALSKI that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.