Krakowski
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name for someone from the city of Krakow in Poland
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/krakɔfskʲi/(machine-generated) Polish · model-generated
Krakowski is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 12K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 114K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 200K
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
- 83 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
3,268 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)habitational name for someone from the city of Krakow in Poland.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Krakowski 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 | 3,268 | 1 in 12K | 3.2K | Krakowski | 81 |
| US United States | 962 | 1 in 346K | 986 | Krakowski | 83 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 542K | — | Krakowski | 32 |
| CA Canada | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 324K | — | Krakowski | 11 |
| FR France | ≈95 est. | ≈1 in 724K | 4 | Krakowski | 1 |
| NO Norway | 48 | 1 in 114K | 48 | — | 4 |
| SE Sweden | 34 | 1 in 300K | 34 | Krakowski | 5 |
| EE Estonia | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 204K | listed | — | 1 |
3,268 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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)Krakowski is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Polish, Cracovian (of, from or relating to the city of Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In zlw-opl, Cracovian (of, from or relating to the city of Krakow, Poland)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Maciej Krakowskib. 1924PLPolish physicist
- Piotr Krakowskib. 1925PLart historian
- Shmuel Krakowskib. 1926PLIsraeli historian (1926–2018)
- Jędrzej Krakowskib. 1940PLPolish economist
- Andrzej Krakowskib. 1946PLscreenwriter
- Czesław Krakowskib. 1950PLPolish politician
- Sergey Krakovskiyb. 1960UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian footballer
- Jane Krakowskib. 1968USAmerican actress and singer, comedian
- Roi Krakovskib. 1982ILnot in their usual namePh.D. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
- Przemysław KrakowskiPLPolish physician and 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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3.2K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3.2K | #722 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 986 | #23,903 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 962 | #25,640 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 944 | #27,108 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 48 | #27,017 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 34 | #17,152 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 29 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 25 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 25 | #78,460 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 24 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 21 | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Krakowski mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name for someone from the city of Krakow in Poland. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Krakowski?
- In Polish /krakɔfskʲi/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Krakowski have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 3.3 thousand people named Krakowski, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled krakowski.
- Where is Krakowski most common?
- Krakowski is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 12 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Krakowski?
- In Poland, the national register counted 3,268 people named Krakowski in 2026, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/krakowskiThe 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, “Krakowski”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.