Bońkowski
surname · Latin script
Bońkowski is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Polish Bonkowski.
- PLPoland1 in 76K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 475K
- NONorway1 in 607K
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
- 65 (measured from records)
- 1 in 76K (inferred from the name graph)
700 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 Bonkowski 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)
Borrowed from Polish Bonkowski.
Sources 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bońkowski 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 | 700 | 1 in 475K | 738 | Bonkowski | 65 |
| PL Poland | 506 | 1 in 76K | 506 | Bonkowski | 31 |
| BR Brazil | 70 | 1 in 3M | 70 | — | 1 |
| AR Argentina | 25 | 1 in 1.8M | 25 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 19 | 1 in 617K | 19 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | 9 | 1 in 607K | 9 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 5 | 1 in 1.7M | 5 | — | 2 |
700 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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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)
- Piotr Adam BońkowskiPLPolish civil engineer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 506 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 506 | #6,343 |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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 Bońkowski mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Polish Bonkowski. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Bońkowski have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 700 people named Bońkowski, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bonkowski.
- Where is Bońkowski most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bońkowski is densest in Poland — about 1 in 76 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bońkowski?
- In the United States, the national register counted 700 people named Bońkowski in 2010, about 1 in 475 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Bońkowski?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bo%C5%84kowskiThe 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, “Bońkowski”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.