Kaminski

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Polish: or stone-cutter, from Pol. kamien stone + -ski suffix of sur¬ names. 2. habitation name from any of the several places named with the Pol. word kamien stone, e.g

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

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

Kaminski is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country, where it is the 12th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 831(measured from records)
  • DEGermany≈1 in 8.2K
  • USUnited States1 in 24K

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)

46,075 people, 2026

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
397 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 831 (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KaminskiLatin(measured from records)
คามนสกThai(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

habitational name for someone from any of more than 60 villages and towns named Kamieii, from Polish kamieh ‘stone’, ‘rock’.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

How Kaminski is read(measured from records)

Kaminski is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English64%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Kaminski in English.

  • Polish9.4%

    or stone-cutter, from Pol. kamien stone + -ski suffix of sur¬ names. 2. habitation name from any of the several places named with the Pol. word kamien stone, e.g. Kamieniec in Lower Silesia, with the addition of the local surname suffix -ski (see Baranowski).

    as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

  • German8.9%

    Polnischer Familienname auf -ski; morphologisches Suffix zur Zugehörigkeit/Herkunft, hier patronymisch-lokativ. Demonstriert die Verbreitung von -sky/-ski-Formen.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen

    slawischer Familienname in -ski; patronymisch/ortsbezogen. 4040 Träger.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kaminski 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 Kaminski is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland#1246,0751 in 83146KKaminski144
US United States—14,1521 in 24K14KKaminski397
DE Germany#695≈9,700 est.≈1 in 8.2K—Kaminski159
BR Brazil—2,9121 in 73K2.9KKaminski109
GB United Kingdom—≈2,100 est.≈1 in 31KlistedKaminski127
NO Norway—3841 in 14K384Kaminski11
SK Slovakia—≈260 est.≈1 in 21K—Kaminski8
BZ Belize#19≈87 est.≈1 in 4.6K—Kaminski2

46,075 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026, counting the spelling kamiński. 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); the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)

Kaminski is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Kamiǹski, Kamiñski, Ḳaminsḳi, Kamínski, Kamiński

  • Hindi surname5 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Sinhala

    Also written Kamiński

  • Croatian surname15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Russia

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Камински, Kamiński, Kamińśki

  • Estonian surname4 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Estonian, Finnish

    Also written Kamiński

  • Russian surname59 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States, Ukraine, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, English, Spanish

    Also written Каминский, Kaminsky, Kaminskij, Каминський, Kaminskiy

46 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Kaminski is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • habitational name for someone from any of more than 60 villages and towns named Kamieii, from Polish kamieh ‘stone’, ‘rock’.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • habitational name from any of the places mentioned at 1 or from places in Ukraine named Kamin, from Ukrainian kamin ‘stone’.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • habitational name for someone from any of various places named Kamionka in Polish or Kaminka in Ukrainian.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

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)

1850190019502000Heinrich Kaminski, b. 1886Grigory Kaminsky, b. 1895Bronislav Kaminski, b. 1899Joseph Kaminski, b. 1903Gerd Kaminski, b. 1942Matthew Kaminski, b. 1971Ilya Kaminsky, b. 1977Azmyth Kaminski, b. 1980Jake Kaminski, b. 1988Thomas Kaminski, b. 1992

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 Kaminski,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 36 sources across 20 countries.

Official registers attesting Kaminski
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200014K#2,337
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201014K#2,553
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202013K#2,667
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—2.9K#3,501
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026605—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—605#5,221
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—384#3,790
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026143—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—143#22,323
GB United KingdomA Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988)———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 7

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

Where does the name Kaminski come from?
habitational name for someone from any of more than 60 villages and towns named Kamieii, from Polish kamieh ‘stone’, ‘rock’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Kaminski?
A machine transcription gives /kəˈmɪnski/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Kaminski mean?
In Polish, or stone-cutter, from Pol. kamien stone + -ski suffix of sur¬ names. 2. habitation name from any of the several places named with the Pol. word kamien stone, e.g.
In which country does Kaminski have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 46 thousand people named Kaminski, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kaminski.
Where is Kaminski most common?
Kaminski is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 831 people carrying it.
How common is the name Kaminski?
In Poland, the national register counted 46,075 people named Kaminski in 2026, about 1 in 831 residents.
How common is Kaminski compared with other names?
In Poland, Kaminski is the 12th 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, “Kaminski” — the 12th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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