How common is the surname Jankowski?

8,970 people in the United States had the surname Jankowski in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 34,420 Americans. It ranked 3,964th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Jankowski?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Jankowski identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Jankowski getting more or less common?

Less common. 9,060 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,970 in 2010, down 1.0%.

The surname Jankowski

A Polish surname, carried by 8,970 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex J522

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Jankowski is more common than 97.6% of them.

Origin

Polish origin

Borrowed from Polish Jankowski.

One of 304 Polish surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 8,970 people named Jankowski in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 34,420 Americans. That is down 1.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 9,060.

#3,964

rank among US surnames

8,970

people in 2010

3.0

per 100,000 Americans

-1%

change since 2000 (was #3,603)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#3,955	Beattie	8,993	34,332
#3,956	Sigler	8,992	34,336
#3,957	Neuman	8,982	34,374
#3,958	Sevilla	8,980	34,381
#3,959	Pollack	8,977	34,393
#3,960	Ridgeway	8,975	34,401
#3,961	Bourque	8,973	34,408

Who is named Jankowski

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

96% of people named Jankowski identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Two or more races 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Yankowski

Surnames that sound like Jankowski

Janiszewski

Jankowski has the Soundex code J522, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code J522.

Other Polish surnames

All 304 Polish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Jankowski come from?: Borrowed from Polish Jankowski.
How common is the surname Jankowski?: 8,970 people in the United States had the surname Jankowski in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 34,420 Americans. It ranked 3,964th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Jankowski?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Jankowski identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Jankowski getting more or less common?: Less common. 9,060 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,970 in 2010, down 1.0%.
What are other spellings of Jankowski?: Yankowski.