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    The surname Kowalewski

    A Polish surname, carried by 2,718 people in the United States.

    4 syllables Soundex K420

    Kowalewski: #11,568 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Kowalewski #11,568, 2,718 people Kowalewski: #11,568 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Kowalewski #11,568, 2,718 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kowalewski is more common than 92.9% of them.

    Origin

    Polish origin

    From Polish Kowalewski.

    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 2,718 people named Kowalewski in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 113,593 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 2,704.

    #11,568
    rank among US surnames
    2,718
    people in 2010
    0.9
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.5%
    change since 2000 (was #10,821)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #11,560Lupton2,719113,551
    #11,568Carbonell2,718113,593
    #11,572Kelton2,717113,635
    #11,576Albarado2,716113,677

    Who is named Kowalewski

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

    97% of people named Kowalewski identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 97%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
    • 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

    • Kovaleski

    Surnames that sound like Kowalewski

    Kowalewski has the Soundex code K420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K420.

    Other Polish surnames

    All 304 Polish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Kowalewski come from?
    From Polish Kowalewski.
    How common is the surname Kowalewski?
    2,718 people in the United States had the surname Kowalewski in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 113,593 Americans. It ranked 11,568th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Kowalewski?
    In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Kowalewski identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Kowalewski getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,704 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,718 in 2010, up 0.5%.
    What are other spellings of Kowalewski?
    Kovaleski.