How common is the surname Kowalsky?

1,538 people in the United States had the surname Kowalsky in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 200,745 Americans. It ranked 18,106th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Kowalsky?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Kowalsky identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Kowalsky getting more or less common?

More common. 1,535 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,538 in 2010, up 0.2%.

The surname Kowalsky

A surname, carried by 1,538 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex K420

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kowalsky is more common than 88.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,538 people named Kowalsky in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 200,745 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,535.

#18,106

rank among US surnames

1,538

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+0.2%

change since 2000 (was #17,059)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#18,098	Quayle	1,539	200,614
#18,106	Chumbley	1,538	200,745

Who is named Kowalsky

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

96% of people named Kowalsky identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
Two or more races 0.8%

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

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Surnames that sound like Kowalsky

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

Questions

How common is the surname Kowalsky?: 1,538 people in the United States had the surname Kowalsky in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 200,745 Americans. It ranked 18,106th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Kowalsky?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Kowalsky identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Kowalsky getting more or less common?: More common. 1,535 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,538 in 2010, up 0.2%.