Kempinski
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name for someone from K?pina, K?pino, K^piny, K^pno or other places named with Polish k^pa ‘islet’ (see Kempa) (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/kɛmpʲins̪ci/(machine-generated) Polish · model-generated
Kempinski is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country: 1,180 people, counted by dane.gov.pl in 2026.
- PLPoland1 in 32K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 470Kfew records
- USUnited States1 in 964K
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)
- Record sources
- 145 (measured from records)
- 1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
1,180 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Kempinski
- Polish:/kɛmpʲins̪ci/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Portuguese:/kj̃pĩʃki/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)habitational name for someone from K?pina, K?pino, K^piny, K^pno or other places named with Polish k^pa ‘islet’ (see Kempa).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Kempinski is found
(measured from records)Kempinski 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 | 1,180 | 1 in 32K | 1.2K | — | 1 |
| US United States | 345 | 1 in 964K | 347 | Kempinski | 145 |
| DE Germany | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 465K | — | Kempinski | 44 |
| BR Brazil | 116 | 1 in 1.8M | 116 | — | — |
| IL Israel | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 179K | — | Kempinski | 7 |
| CA Canada | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 816K | — | Kempinski | 17 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 532K | — | Kempinski | 1 |
1,180 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)- Berthold Kempinskib. 1843PLGerman hotelier, the founder of the Kempinski hotels (1843–1910)
- Gerhard Kempinskib. 1904DEGerman actor (1905–1947)
- Tom Kempinskib. 1938GBBritish actor and playwriter (1938–2023)
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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kempinski mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name for someone from K?pina, K?pino, K^piny, K^pno or other places named with Polish k^pa ‘islet’ (see Kempa). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kempinski?
- It depends on the language: in Polish /kɛmpʲins̪ci/; in Portuguese /kj̃pĩʃki/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kempinski?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Kempinski, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Germany, Brazil and Israel; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Kempinski most common?
- Kempinski is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 32 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kempinski?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,180 people named Kempinski in 2026, about 1 in 32 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kempinskiThe 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, “Kempinski” — ranked 2539th in Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.