Dąbrowski
surname · Latin script
Dąbrowski is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country, where it is the 17th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Dąbrowa + -ski ; Dąbrowa comes from dąbrowa, "oakwood".
- PLPoland1 in 917(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 116K
- NONorway1 in 17K
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
- 170 (measured from records)
- 1 in 917 (inferred from the name graph)
41,736 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 Dabrowski in PL Poland, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 3 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 Dąbrowa + -ski ; Dąbrowa comes from dąbrowa, "oakwood".
Sources 1
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dąbrowski 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 | #17 | 41,736 | 1 in 917 | 42K | Dabrowski | 145 |
| CN China | — | ≈9,800 est. | ≈1 in 142K | — | Dabrowski | 5 |
| US United States | — | 2,877 | 1 in 116K | 2.9K | Dabrowski | 170 |
| FR France | — | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 83K | 91 | Dąbrowski | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 92K | — | Dabrowski | 78 |
| NO Norway | — | 328 | 1 in 17K | 328 | Dabrowski | 11 |
| SE Sweden | — | 218 | 1 in 47K | 218 | Dabrowski | 19 |
| FI Finland | — | 112 | 1 in 50K | 112 | — | 3 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈95 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Dąbrowski | 12 |
41,736 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026, counting the spelling dąbrowski. 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
- Jan Henryk Dąbrowskib. 1755FRPolish general (1755-1818)
- Jarosław Dąbrowskib. 1836PLPolish left-wing independence activist and general, supporter of the Paris Commune (1836-1871)
- Maria Dąbrowskab. 1889PLnot in their usual namePolish writer (1889–1965)
- Kazimierz Dąbrowskib. 1902PLPolish physician and psychologist
- Yury Dombrovskyb. 1909RUnot in their usual nameSoviet writer (1909-1978)
- Marek Dąbrowskib. 1949PLPolish fencer
- Olexander Dombrovskyib. 1962UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian politician
- Izabela Dąbrowskab. 1966PLnot in their usual namePolish actress
- Katarzyna Dąbrowskab. 1984PLnot in their usual namePolish actress and singer
- Gabriela Dabrowskib. 1992CACanadian tennis player
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 8 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 42K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 42K | #11 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 184 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 184 | #17,729 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Dąbrowski mean, and where does it come from?
- From Dąbrowa + -ski ; Dąbrowa comes from dąbrowa, "oakwood". Recorded by Wiktionary.
- What are other forms of the name Dąbrowski?
- In the etymology graph, Dąbrowska is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Dąbrowski have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 42 thousand people named Dąbrowski, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dabrowski.
- Where is Dąbrowski most common?
- Dąbrowski is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 917 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Dąbrowski?
- In Poland, the national register counted 41,736 people named Dąbrowski in 2026, about 1 in 917 residents.
- How common is Dąbrowski compared with other names?
- In Poland, Dąbrowski is the 17th most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Dąbrowski” — the 17th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.