Makowska
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/makɔfska/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Makowska is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From various toponyms derived from mak (“poppy”).
- PLPoland1 in 2.9K(measured from records)
- IEIreland≈1 in 203K
- NONorway1 in 219K
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
- 100 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
13,267 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From various toponyms derived from mak (“poppy”).
Sources 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Makowska 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 | #222 | 13,267 | 1 in 2.9K | 13K | Makowska | 100 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 559K | — | Makowska | 49 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 876K | — | Makowska | 33 |
| US United States | — | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 5.2M | listed | Makowska | 53 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Makowska | 4 |
| SE Sweden | — | 39 | 1 in 262K | 39 | Makowska | 9 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 203K | — | Makowska | 8 |
| NO Norway | — | 25 | 1 in 219K | 25 | — | 4 |
| DK Denmark | — | 12 | 1 in 489K | 12 | — | — |
13,267 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); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
- Apolonia Makowskab. 1856PLPolish teacher (1856-1952)
- Helena Makowskab. 1893ITPolish actress (1893-1964)
- Barbara Hyla-Makowskab. 1946PLPolish politician and deputy
- Maria Makowskab. 1969PLPolish association football player
- Marta Makowskab. 1977PLPolish wheelchair fencer
- Katarzyna Makowskab. 1986PLPolish biotechnologist and activist
- Malgorzata Makowska-JanusikPLPolish physicist
- Agnieszka MakowskaPLresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-2994-4019
- Marta MakowskaPLresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-0785-6237
- Barbara Łukasik-MakowskaPLPolish economist
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 14 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 13K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 13K | #89 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 39 | #15,443 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 25 | #38,463 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 12 | #34,663 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #357,167 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Makowska mean, and where does it come from?
- From various toponyms derived from mak (“poppy”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Makowska?
- A machine transcription gives /makɔfska/ (IPA) for Polish.
- In which country does Makowska have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Makowska, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled makowska.
- Where is Makowska most common?
- Makowska is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Makowska?
- In Poland, the national register counted 13,267 people named Makowska in 2026, about 1 in 2.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Makowska compared with other names?
- In Poland, Makowska is the 222nd most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Makowska?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/makowskaThe 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, “Makowska” — the 222nd most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.