How common is the surname Pawlowski?

5,332 people in the United States had the surname Pawlowski in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 57,904 Americans. It ranked 6,384th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Pawlowski?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Pawlowski identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Pawlowski getting more or less common?

More common. 5,274 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,332 in 2010, up 1.1%.

The surname Pawlowski

A Polish surname, carried by 5,332 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex P420

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pawlowski is more common than 96.1% of them.

Origin

Polish origin

Borrowed from Polish Pawłowski.

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 5,332 people named Pawlowski in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 57,904 Americans. That is up 1.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,274.

#6,384

rank among US surnames

5,332

people in 2010

1.8

per 100,000 Americans

+1.1%

change since 2000 (was #6,008)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#6,378	Skeen	5,338	57,839
#6,379	Curl	5,335	57,872
#6,381	Robey	5,333	57,893
#6,384	Spinelli	5,332	57,904
#6,388	Klaus	5,328	57,948

Who is named Pawlowski

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

95% of people named Pawlowski identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
Two or more races 1.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.1%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Pawlowski

Pawlowski 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 Pawlowski come from?: Borrowed from Polish Pawłowski.
How common is the surname Pawlowski?: 5,332 people in the United States had the surname Pawlowski in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 57,904 Americans. It ranked 6,384th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Pawlowski?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Pawlowski identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Pawlowski getting more or less common?: More common. 5,274 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,332 in 2010, up 1.1%.