Karczewski
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name for someone from Karczew, named with Polish karcz ‘stump’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kɝˈtʃɛfski/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Karczewski is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 5.8K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 98K
- IEIreland≈1 in 118K
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
- 98 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.8K (inferred from the name graph)
6,552 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
habitational name for someone from Karczew, named with Polish karcz ‘stump’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Karczewski 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 | #556 | 6,552 | 1 in 5.8K | 6.5K | Karczewski | 98 |
| US United States | — | 1,058 | 1 in 314K | 1.1K | Karczewski | 84 |
| FR France | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 330K | 21 | Karczewski | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 410K | listed | Karczewski | 37 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈92 est. | ≈1 in 411K | — | Karczewski | 14 |
| NO Norway | — | 56 | 1 in 98K | 56 | Karczewski | 3 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 118K | — | Karczewski | 6 |
6,552 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 2000; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Karczewski 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 Polish, name from a place called Karczew (from Pol. karcz stump (cf. Czech KrC) + -ew possessive suffix), with the addition of -ski, suffix of local surnames (see Baranowski).
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
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)
- Wacław Karczewskib. 1855PLPolish writer and journalist (1855-1911)
- Antoni Józef Karczewskib. 1898PLPolish architect (1898-1957)
- Zdzisław Karczewskib. 1903PLactor (1903-1970)
- Leszek Karczewskib. 1905PLPolish architect (1905-1978)
- Bruno Karczewskib. 1913DEGerman officer and Knight's Cross recipient
- Bohdan Karczewskib. 1930PLPolish physicist (1930-1978)
- Stanisław Karczewskib. 1955PLPolish surgeon and politician
- Marek Żukow-Karczewskib. 1961PLPolish historian, journalist and opinion journalist
- Christoph Karczewskib. 1961DEGerman judge and lawyer
- Maciej KarczewskiPLPolish researcher
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 28 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6.5K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6.5K | #272 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #22,039 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #24,318 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #23,866 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 56 | #24,252 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 39 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 36 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 36 | #62,347 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 32 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 32 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 25 | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Karczewski mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name for someone from Karczew, named with Polish karcz ‘stump’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Karczewski?
- A machine transcription gives /kɝˈtʃɛfski/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Karczewski have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 6.6 thousand people named Karczewski, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled karczewski.
- Where is Karczewski most common?
- Karczewski is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.8 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Karczewski?
- In Poland, the national register counted 6,552 people named Karczewski in 2026, about 1 in 5.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Karczewski compared with other names?
- In Poland, Karczewski is the 556th 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/karczewskiThe 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, “Karczewski” — the 556th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.