How common is the surname Kalinowski?

3,951 people in the United States had the surname Kalinowski in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 78,144 Americans. It ranked 8,377th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Kalinowski?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Kalinowski identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Kalinowski getting more or less common?

More common. 3,860 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,951 in 2010, up 2.4%.

The surname Kalinowski

A Polish surname, carried by 3,951 people in the United States.

4 syllables Soundex K452

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kalinowski is more common than 94.8% of them.

Origin

Polish origin

Borrowed from Polish Kalinowski.

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 3,951 people named Kalinowski in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 78,144 Americans. That is up 2.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,860.

#8,377

rank among US surnames

3,951

people in 2010

1.3

per 100,000 Americans

+2.4%

change since 2000 (was #7,951)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,372	Ardoin	3,955	78,065
#8,373	Greenleaf	3,954	78,084
#8,375	Dunford	3,952	78,124
#8,377	Kalinowski	3,951	78,144
#8,380	Zuber	3,950	78,163

Who is named Kalinowski

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

96% of people named Kalinowski identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Two or more races 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Kalinoski

Surnames that sound like Kalinowski

Klink

Kalinowski has the Soundex code K452, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K452.

Other Polish surnames

All 304 Polish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Kalinowski come from?: Borrowed from Polish Kalinowski.
How common is the surname Kalinowski?: 3,951 people in the United States had the surname Kalinowski in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 78,144 Americans. It ranked 8,377th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Kalinowski?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Kalinowski identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Kalinowski getting more or less common?: More common. 3,860 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,951 in 2010, up 2.4%.
What are other spellings of Kalinowski?: Kalinoski.