Kadów
surname · Latin script
Kadów is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: habitational name from a place of this name in Mecklenberg.
- PLPoland1 in 445K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 709K
- DKDenmark1 in 1.2M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 18 (measured from records)
- 1 in 445K (inferred from the name graph)
469 people, 2010
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 Kadow in US United States, PL Poland.
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 from a place of this name in Mecklenberg.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kadów 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 469 | 1 in 709K | 507 | Kadow | 8 |
| PL Poland | 86 | 1 in 445K | 48 | Kadow | 18 |
| BR Brazil | 31 | 1 in 6.8M | 31 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 5 | 1 in 1.2M | 5 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 4 | 1 in 2.6M | 4 | — | — |
469 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 3 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 15 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 15 | #106,222 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 14 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 14 | #110,310 |
Reference works 1
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 Kadów mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from a place of this name in Mecklenberg. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Kadów have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 469 people named Kadów, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kadow.
- Where is Kadów most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kadów is densest in Poland — about 1 in 445 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kadów?
- In the United States, the national register counted 469 people named Kadów in 2010, about 1 in 709 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kadów?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kad%C3%B3wThe 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, “Kadów”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.