Nowakowska
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nowakowska is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country, where it is the 86th most common surname.
- PLPoland1 in 1.6K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 51K
- SESweden1 in 148K
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
- 131 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
24,313 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nowakowska 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 | #86 | 24,313 | 1 in 1.6K | 24K | Nowakowska | 131 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 451K | 53 | Nowakowska | 51 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 566K | — | Nowakowska | 49 |
| US United States | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | listed | Nowakowska | 81 |
| NO Norway | — | 108 | 1 in 51K | 108 | Nowakowska | 9 |
| SE Sweden | — | 69 | 1 in 148K | 69 | Nowakowska | 7 |
| DK Denmark | — | 32 | 1 in 183K | 32 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 234K | listed | — | 1 |
24,313 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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)
- Tadeusz Nowakowskib. 1879PLnot in their usual namePolish painter and architect (1879-1957)
- Wacław Nowakowskib. 1888PLnot in their usual namePolish architect (1888-1955)
- Marek Nowakowskib. 1935PLnot in their usual namePolish writer (1935–2014)
- Richard Nowakowskib. 1955PLnot in their usual nameEast German boxer
- Kenneth Nowakowskib. 1958CAnot in their usual nameCanadian bishop
- Przemysław Nowakowskib. 1970PLnot in their usual namePolish journalist
- Piotr Tomasz Nowakowskib. 1974PLnot in their usual namePolish researcher
- Weronika Nowakowska-Ziemniakb. 1986PLPolish biathlete
- Piotr Nowakowskib. 1987PLnot in their usual namePolish volleyball player
- Ida Nowakowskab. 1990PLPolish actress
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 24K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 24K | #28 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 108 | #14,320 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 69 | #9,694 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 53 | #49,026 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 32 | #15,681 |
| 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
- In which country does Nowakowska have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 24 thousand people named Nowakowska, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nowakowska.
- Where is Nowakowska most common?
- Nowakowska is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.6 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Nowakowska?
- In Poland, the national register counted 24,313 people named Nowakowska in 2026, about 1 in 1.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Nowakowska compared with other names?
- In Poland, Nowakowska is the 86th most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nowakowska?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nowakowskaThe 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, “Nowakowska” — the 86th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.