Kalinski

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

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

Kalinski is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 14K(measured from records)
  • HRCroatia1 in 50K
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 175K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Poland (measured from records)

2,641 people, 2026

Sources
67 (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)

Meaning & origin

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

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kalinski 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 Kalinski is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland2,6411 in 14K2.6KKalinski62
US United States4871 in 683K493Kalinski67
EG Egypt≈280 est.≈1 in 369K—Kalinski2
BR Brazil1291 in 1.6M129—1
GB United Kingdom≈130 est.≈1 in 519K—Kalinski23
HR Croatia851 in 50K90——
FI Finland301 in 186K30—2
EE Estonia≈7 est.≈1 in 175Klisted—2

2,641 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026, counting the spelling kaliński. 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 2000; 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); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)

Kalinski is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Kaliński

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Kaliñski, Kaliński

  • Croatian surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Bulgaria, United States, Argentina

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Калински, Kaliński

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Kaliński

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Kaliński

  • Norwegian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Sweden

    Languages: Norwegian, Danish, Swedish

    Also written Kaliński

  • Hebrew surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, Poland, United States, Ukraine

    Also written קלינסקי, Kalinsky, קאלינסקי, Klinsky

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Kaliński

21 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)

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)

FormalDear Kalinski,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 20 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Kalinski
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000493#41,596
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020492#46,623
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010487#44,193
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—129#52,177
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202190—
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202185#9,014
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—30#35,981
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202623—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—23#82,212
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20267—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—7#163,977
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

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 Kalinski?
A machine transcription gives /kəˈɫɪnski/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Kalinski have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 2.6 thousand people named Kalinski, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kalinski.
Where is Kalinski most common?
Kalinski is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 14 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Kalinski?
In Poland, the national register counted 2,641 people named Kalinski in 2026, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.

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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, “Kalinski”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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