Kaliński

surname · Latin script

/kaliɲski/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Kaliński is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. In Cook Islands it is the 17th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 683K(measured from records)
  • PLPoland1 in 14K
  • HRCroatia1 in 50K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Poland (measured from records)

2,641 people, 2026

Sources
165 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Kalinski in US United States, CK Cook Islands.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kaliński counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Kaliński is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland—2,6411 in 14K2.6K—3
US United States—4871 in 683K493Kalinski165
BR Brazil—1291 in 1.6M129—1
HR Croatia—851 in 50K90——
AR Argentina—371 in 1.2M37——
FI Finland—301 in 186K30—1
SE Sweden—271 in 378K27—4
BE Belgium—221 in 533K22—4
CK Cook Islands#17———Kalinski1

2,641 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Kaliński is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Kalinski

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Brazil, United States, Dominican Republic

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Kalinski, Kaliñski

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Kalinski

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Kalinski

  • Polish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, United Kingdom, Egypt

    Languages: Polish, Arabic, Finnish

    Also written Kalinski

  • Russian surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ukraine, Russia

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Kalinski, Калінскі, Калински

4 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Emil Kaliński, b. 1890Władysław Zubosz-Kaliński, b. 1891Feliks Kaliński, b. 1893Anatoly Kalinsky, b. 1939Janusz Kaliński, b. 1942Wanda Krystyna Kalińska, b. 1946Maciej Kaliński, b. 1974Pio Kaliński, b. 1977Nikolai Kalinskiy, b. 1993

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalSzanowni Państwo,Dear Kaliński, (English)
InformalSzanowni Państwo,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 7 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Kaliński
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262.6K—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2.6K#932
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202612—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—12#120,692

Reference works 4

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Kaliński?
A machine transcription gives /kaliɲski/ (IPA) for Polish.
In which country does Kaliński have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 2.6 thousand people named Kaliński, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Kaliński most common?
Kaliński is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 14 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Kaliński?
In Poland, the national register counted 2,641 people named Kaliński in 2026, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
How common is Kaliński compared with other names?
In Cook Islands, Kaliński is the 17th most common surname of 473 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kaliński” — the 17th most common surname in Cook Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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