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    The surname Pawlak

    A Polish surname, carried by 4,127 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex P420

    Pawlak: #8,019 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Pawlak #8,019, 4,127 people Pawlak: #8,019 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Pawlak #8,019, 4,127 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pawlak is more common than 95.1% of them.

    Origin

    Polish origin

    A surname from Polish.

    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 4,127 people named Pawlak in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 74,811 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 4,126.

    #8,019
    rank among US surnames
    4,127
    people in 2010
    1.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    0%
    change since 2000 (was #7,438)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #8,010Yousif4,13074,757
    #8,013Seeger4,12974,775
    #8,016Kaul4,12874,793
    #8,019Pawlak4,12774,811
    #8,023Markel4,12674,829
    #8,027Polson4,12574,847
    #8,028Giffin4,12474,866

    Who is named Pawlak

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

    96% of people named Pawlak identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
    • Two or more races 1.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

    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 Pawlak

    Pawlak has the Soundex code P420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P420.

    Other Polish surnames

    All 304 Polish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Pawlak come from?
    Pawlak is Polish in origin.
    How common is the surname Pawlak?
    4,127 people in the United States had the surname Pawlak in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 74,811 Americans. It ranked 8,019th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Pawlak?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Pawlak identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Pawlak getting more or less common?
    About as common. 4,126 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,127 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.