How common is the surname Michalowski?

1,416 people in the United States had the surname Michalowski in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 218,041 Americans. It ranked 19,177th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Michalowski getting more or less common?

More common. 1,367 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,416 in 2010, up 3.6%.

The surname Michalowski

A Polish surname, carried by 1,416 people in the United States.

4 syllables Soundex M242

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Michalowski is more common than 88.2% of them.

Origin

Polish origin

Borrowed from Polish Michałowski.

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 1,416 people named Michalowski in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 218,041 Americans. That is up 3.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,367.

#19,177

rank among US surnames

1,416

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+3.6%

change since 2000 (was #18,594)

Who is named Michalowski

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

97% of people named Michalowski identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 97%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
Two or more races 0.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

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 Michalowski

Michalowski has the Soundex code M242, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M242.

Other Polish surnames

All 304 Polish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Michalowski come from?: Borrowed from Polish Michałowski.
How common is the surname Michalowski?: 1,416 people in the United States had the surname Michalowski in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 218,041 Americans. It ranked 19,177th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Michalowski?: In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Michalowski identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Michalowski getting more or less common?: More common. 1,367 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,416 in 2010, up 3.6%.