Rakowski
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Rakowski is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Polish Rakowski.
- PLPoland1 in 6.9K(measured from records)
- IEIreland≈1 in 44K
- NONorway1 in 119K
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
- 97 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.9K (inferred from the name graph)
5,536 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Polish Rakowski.
Sources 1
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rakowski 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 | #790 | 5,536 | 1 in 6.9K | 5.5K | Rakowski | 97 |
| US United States | — | 2,092 | 1 in 159K | 2.1K | Rakowski | 96 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 179K | 98 | Rakowski | 34 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 151K | — | Rakowski | 17 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 421K | — | Rakowski | 2 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Rakowski | 4 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 81 | 1 in 132K | 81 | Rakowski | 24 |
| NO Norway | — | 46 | 1 in 119K | 46 | Rakowski | 2 |
5,536 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); MVČR — living population register 2017; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
- Jan Rakowskib. 15941594-1639
- Georgi Rakovskib. 1821BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian revolutionary and writer
- Christian Rakovskyb. 1873BGnot in their usual nameSoviet diplomat (1873-1941)
- Adam Rakovskyb. 1879RUnot in their usual nameAcademician, Professor
- Leonty Rakovskyb. 1895BYnot in their usual nameRussian writer (1896-1979)
- Jan Nepomucen Rakowskib. 1898PLPolish violist (1898–1962)
- Mieczysław Rakowskib. 1926PLformer First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party (1926–2008)
- David Rakowskib. 1958USAmerican composer and musicologist
- Lukáš Rakowskib. 1982CZCzech figure skater
- Adrian Rakowskib. 1990PLPolish footballer
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 25 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5.5K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5.5K | #345 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.1K | #14,307 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.1K | #13,469 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.9K | #15,098 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 98 | #33,556 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 81 | #20,109 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 81 | #8,531 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 57 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 57 | #46,067 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 46 | #27,691 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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
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 Rakowski mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Polish Rakowski. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Rakowski have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 5.5 thousand people named Rakowski, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rakowski.
- Where is Rakowski most common?
- Rakowski is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Rakowski?
- In Poland, the national register counted 5,536 people named Rakowski in 2026, about 1 in 6.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Rakowski compared with other names?
- In Poland, Rakowski is the 790th most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rakowskiThe 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, “Rakowski” — the 790th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.