Grabowska
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ɡraˈbɔf.ska/(recorded in a dictionary) Polish · from Wiktionary
Grabowska is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country, where it is the 63rd most common surname.
- PLPoland1 in 1.3K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 37K
- SESweden1 in 138K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 132 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
28,706 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Grabowska 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 | #63 | 28,706 | 1 in 1.3K | 29K | Grabowska | 132 |
| US United States | — | 187 | 1 in 1.8M | 239 | Grabowska | 95 |
| NO Norway | — | 146 | 1 in 37K | 146 | — | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 512K | — | Grabowska | 58 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 488K | — | Grabowska | 10 |
| SE Sweden | — | 74 | 1 in 138K | 74 | Grabowska | 10 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 62 | 1 in 173K | 62 | Grabowska | 12 |
| FI Finland | — | 27 | 1 in 206K | 27 | — | 5 |
28,706 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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); MVČR — living population register 2017; 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylakb. 1920PLPolish architect (1920–2018)
- Danuta Grabowskab. 1942PLPolish politician and deputy
- Genowefa Grabowskab. 1944PLPolish politician
- Barbara Grabowskab. 1954PLPolish actress (1954-1994)
- Ałbena Grabowskab. 1971PLPolish physician, writer
- Urszula Grabowskab. 1976PLPolish actress
- Ola Jordanb. 1982PLnot in their usual namePolish-born British ballroom dancer (born 1982)
- Zuzanna Grabowskab. 1983PLPolish actress
- Katarzyna Grabowskab. 1991PLPolish actress
- Dominika Grabowskab. 1998PLPolish association football 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 29K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 29K | #20 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 239 | #84,529 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 187 | #97,210 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 146 | #10,708 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 137 | #117,538 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 74 | #9,129 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 27 | #39,562 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2 | #185,465 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 2 | #25,410 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Grabowska?
- In Polish /ɡraˈbɔf.ska/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Grabowska have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 29 thousand people named Grabowska, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled grabowska.
- Where is Grabowska most common?
- Grabowska is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Grabowska?
- In Poland, the national register counted 28,706 people named Grabowska in 2026, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Grabowska compared with other names?
- In Poland, Grabowska is the 63rd 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/grabowskaThe 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, “Grabowska” — the 63rd most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.