Kempiński
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/kɛmpiɲski/(machine-generated) Polish · model-generated
Kempiński is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: habitational name for someone from K?pina, K?pino, K^piny, K^pno or other places named with Polish k^pa ‘islet’ (see Kempa).
- PLPoland1 in 32K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 964K
- DKDenmark1 in 978K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 49 (measured from records)
- 1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
1,180 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kempinski in PL Poland, US United States.
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
(measured from records)habitational name for someone from K?pina, K?pino, K^piny, K^pno or other places named with Polish k^pa ‘islet’ (see Kempa).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kempiński 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 1,180 | 1 in 32K | 1.2K | Kempinski | 49 |
| US United States | 345 | 1 in 964K | 347 | Kempinski | 27 |
| BR Brazil | 116 | 1 in 1.8M | 116 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 16 | 1 in 1.1M | 16 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | 7 | 1 in 7.1M | 7 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 6 | 1 in 978K | 6 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 6 | 1 in 1.4M | 6 | — | 2 |
1,180 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026, counting the spelling kempiński. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Józef Kempińskib. 1915PLPolish painter
- Andrzej Kempińskib. 1946PLPolish historian
- Robert Kempińskib. 1972PLPolish speedway rider
- Robert Kempińskib. 1977PLPolish chess player
- Radosław KempińskiPLresearcher (ORCID 0000-0002-6030-2700)
- Roman KempińskiPLPolish engineer (field of chemistry)
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)Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.2K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.2K | #2,539 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 7 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 7 | #164,243 |
Reference works 3
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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
- What does the name Kempiński mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name for someone from K?pina, K?pino, K^piny, K^pno or other places named with Polish k^pa ‘islet’ (see Kempa). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kempiński?
- In Polish /kɛmpiɲski/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Kempiński have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Kempiński, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kempinski.
- Where is Kempiński most common?
- Kempiński is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 32 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kempiński?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,180 people named Kempiński in 2026, about 1 in 32 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kempiński?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kempi%C5%84skiThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Kempiński”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.