Krawiec
surname · Latin script
Meaning: occupational name for a tailor, Polish krawiec, from Old Slavic kravati ‘to cut’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈkɹɑvik/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Krawiec is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 3.1K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 279K
- NONorway1 in 41K
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
- 113 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.1K (inferred from the name graph)
12,502 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)occupational name for a tailor, Polish krawiec, from Old Slavic kravati ‘to cut’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Krawiec 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 | #432 | 12,502 | 1 in 3.1K | 6.3K | Krawiec | 108 |
| US United States | — | 1,194 | 1 in 279K | 1.2K | Krawiec | 113 |
| FR France | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 228K | 27 | Krawiec | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 226K | — | Krawiec | 52 |
| AR Argentina | — | 201 | 1 in 226K | 201 | — | — |
| CA Canada | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 198K | — | Krawiec | 15 |
| NO Norway | — | 132 | 1 in 41K | 132 | — | 7 |
| DK Denmark | — | 34 | 1 in 173K | 34 | — | — |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 171K | — | Krawiec | 4 |
12,502 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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)Krawiec 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, name for a tailor, Pol. krawiec (derived from OSlav. kroit to cut, a distant cogn. of Gk krinein to distinguish, judge, and L cernere to divide, discern, decide). Var.: Krapp. Dims.: Ger. and Jewish (Ashkenazic): Krapfl, Krappel (reasons for adoption as a Jewish name unclear). Jewish only: Krep(p)el (from Yid. krepl, a kind of boiled dumpling; reasons for adoption unclear). Krapotkin see Kropotkin
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In Polish, tailor
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)- Jan Krawiecb. 1919PLPolish-American journalist
- Bogdan Krawiecb. 1944PLPolish economist
- Joyce Krawiecb. 1945USAmerican politician
- Richard Krawiecb. 1952USAmerican writer
- Dariusz Jacek Krawiecb. 1967PLPresident and Chief Executive Officer - PKN ORLEN SA
- Krzysztof Krawiecb. 1970PLPolish researcher
- Georgia Krawiecb. 1972DEGerman-polish photographer
- Krystyna Krawiec-ZłotkowskaPLPolish historian
- Adam KrawiecPLresearcher, ORCID id # 0000-0002-9885-253X
- Arkadiusz KrawiecPLresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0003-2310-055X
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)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6.3K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6.3K | #286 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6.2K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6.2K | #293 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #21,774 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #22,233 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #22,336 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 201 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 132 | #11,905 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 49 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 48 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 47 | — |
Reference works 5
- 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)
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Krawiec mean, and where does it come from?
- occupational name for a tailor, Polish krawiec, from Old Slavic kravati ‘to cut’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Krawiec?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɹɑvik/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Krawiec have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Krawiec, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled krawiec.
- Where is Krawiec most common?
- Krawiec is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Krawiec?
- In Poland, the national register counted 12,502 people named Krawiec in 2026, about 1 in 3.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Krawiec compared with other names?
- In Poland, Krawiec is the 432nd most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/krawiecThe 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, “Krawiec” — the 432nd most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.