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The surname Konieczny

A Polish surname, carried by 1,740 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex K525

Konieczny: #16,509 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Konieczny #16,509, 1,740 people Konieczny: #16,509 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Konieczny #16,509, 1,740 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Konieczny is more common than 89.8% of them.

Origin

Polish origin

From Polish Konieczny.

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 1,740 people named Konieczny in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 177,440 Americans. That is up 3.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,677.

#16,509
rank among US surnames
1,740
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
+3.8%
change since 2000 (was #15,921)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#16,502Kittredge1,741177,338
#16,509Everman1,740177,440

Who is named Konieczny

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

96% of people named Konieczny identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 96%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
  • Two or more races 0.3%
The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander, 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

Surnames that sound like Konieczny

Konieczny has the Soundex code K525, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K525.

Other Polish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Konieczny come from?
From Polish Konieczny.
How common is the surname Konieczny?
1,740 people in the United States had the surname Konieczny in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 177,440 Americans. It ranked 16,509th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Konieczny?
In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Konieczny identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Konieczny getting more or less common?
More common. 1,677 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,740 in 2010, up 3.8%.