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    The surname Nowacki

    A Polish surname, carried by 1,685 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex N200

    Nowacki: #16,900 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Nowacki #16,900, 1,685 people Nowacki: #16,900 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Nowacki #16,900, 1,685 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Nowacki is more common than 89.6% of them.

    Origin

    Polish origin

    Borrowed from Polish Nowacki.

    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 1,685 people named Nowacki in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 183,232 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,691.

    #16,900
    rank among US surnames
    1,685
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    -0.4%
    change since 2000 (was #15,809)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #16,894Schild1,686183,123
    #16,900Hoar1,685183,232
    #16,909Gagner1,684183,341

    Who is named Nowacki

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

    97% of people named Nowacki identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 97%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
    • Two or more races 0.4%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Nowacki

    Nowacki has the Soundex code N200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code N200.

    Other Polish surnames

    All 304 Polish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Nowacki come from?
    Borrowed from Polish Nowacki.
    How common is the surname Nowacki?
    1,685 people in the United States had the surname Nowacki in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 183,232 Americans. It ranked 16,900th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Nowacki?
    In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Nowacki identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Nowacki getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,691 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,685 in 2010, down 0.4%.