Polkowski
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pəlkɔfski/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Polkowski is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 22K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 717K
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 1.1M
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
- 64 (measured from records)
- 1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
1,760 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)
Polkowski 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 | 1,760 | 1 in 22K | 1.7K | Polkowski | 64 |
| US United States | 464 | 1 in 717K | 464 | Polkowski | 60 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | 13 | Polkowski | 19 |
| FR France | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Polkowski | 2 |
| CA Canada | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Polkowski | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Polkowski | 7 |
1,760 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)
- Józef Polkowskib. 1820PLPolish painter (1820-1895)
- Ignacy Polkowskib. 1833PLPolish historian, Catholic priest
- Antoni Polkowskib. 1873PL(1873-1939) sculptor
- Franciszek Krzywda-Polkowskib. 1881PLPolish architect (1881-1949)
- Ryszard Polkowskib. 1931PLPolish politician
- Andrzej Polkowskib. 1939PLPolish translator
- Jan Polkowskib. 1953PLPolish poet, journalist, writer, political activist
- Grzegorz Polkowskib. 1983PLPolish Paralympic swimmer
- Christina RoseUSnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and producer
- Marcin PolkowskiPLPolish gastroenterologist
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 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.7K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.7K | #1,568 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 464 | #45,959 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 439 | #51,280 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 432 | #46,426 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 14 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 14 | #111,809 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 13 | #120,601 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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)
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
- How do you pronounce Polkowski?
- A machine transcription gives /pəlkɔfski/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Polkowski have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Polkowski, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled polkowski.
- Where is Polkowski most common?
- Polkowski is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 22 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Polkowski?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,760 people named Polkowski in 2026, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Polkowski?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/polkowskiThe 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, “Polkowski”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.