Dąbrowska
surname · Latin script
/dɔmbrɔfska/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dąbrowska is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country, where it is the 29th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Dąbrowski + -a.
- PLPoland1 in 884(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 252K
- USUnited States1 in 2.5M
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)
- Sources
- 102 (measured from records)
- 1 in 884 (inferred from the name graph)
43,318 people, 2026
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 Dabrowska in PL Poland, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 4 more.
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)
From Dąbrowski + -a.
Sources 1
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dąbrowska 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 | #29 | 43,318 | 1 in 884 | 43K | Dabrowska | 100 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 252K | — | Dabrowska | 74 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 368K | — | Dabrowska | 49 |
| NO Norway | — | 182 | 1 in 30K | 182 | Dabrowska | 12 |
| US United States | — | 135 | 1 in 2.5M | 236 | Dabrowska | 102 |
| SE Sweden | — | 124 | 1 in 82K | 124 | Dabrowska | 22 |
| BE Belgium | — | 56 | 1 in 209K | 56 | Dabrowska | 7 |
| DK Denmark | — | 50 | 1 in 117K | 50 | — | — |
43,318 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026, counting the spelling dąbrowska. 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Dąbrowska is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Croatian, poljska književnica i kritičarka, autorica jednog od najboljih poljskih proznih djela ( Noći i dani )
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jan Henryk Dąbrowskib. 1755FRnot in their usual namePolish general (1755-1818)
- Jarosław Dąbrowskib. 1836PLnot in their usual namePolish left-wing independence activist and general, supporter of the Paris Commune (1836-1871)
- Maria Dąbrowskab. 1889PLPolish writer (1889–1965)
- Kazimierz Dąbrowskib. 1902PLnot in their usual namePolish physician and psychologist
- Yury Dombrovskyb. 1909RUnot in their usual nameSoviet writer (1909-1978)
- Marek Dąbrowskib. 1949PLnot in their usual namePolish fencer
- Olexander Dombrovskyib. 1962UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian politician
- Izabela Dąbrowskab. 1966PLPolish actress
- Ania Dąbrowskab. 1981PLPolish singer
- Katarzyna Dąbrowskab. 1984PLPolish actress and singer
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)
Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 43K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 43K | #10 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #321,010 |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Dąbrowska mean, and where does it come from?
- From Dąbrowski + -a. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- What are other forms of the name Dąbrowska?
- In the etymology graph, Dąbrowski is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Dąbrowska?
- A machine transcription gives /dɔmbrɔfska/ (IPA) for Polish.
- In which country does Dąbrowska have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 43 thousand people named Dąbrowska, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dabrowska.
- Where is Dąbrowska most common?
- Dąbrowska is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 884 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Dąbrowska?
- In Poland, the national register counted 43,318 people named Dąbrowska in 2026, about 1 in 884 residents.
- How common is Dąbrowska compared with other names?
- In Poland, Dąbrowska is the 29th most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/d%C4%85browskaThe 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, “Dąbrowska” — the 29th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.