Kaminski
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kaminski is a surname, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country, where it is the 12th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Polish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: habitational name for someone from any of more than 60 villages and towns named Kamieii, from Polish kamieh ‘stone’, ‘rock’.
- PLPoland1 in 836◐
- DEGermany1 in 8.4K
- USUnited States1 in 24K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈65K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 352 ●
- 1 in 836 ◐
across 14 countries
recorded for this name
156K records
Official registry-verified
Poland
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
habitational name for someone from any of more than 60 villages and towns named Kamieii, from Polish kamieh ‘stone’, ‘rock’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #12 | 45,818△ | 8.5K rec. | 1 in 836 | 46K | Kaminski | 133 |
| US United States | — | 14,152 | 109K rec. | 1 in 24K | 14K | Kaminski | 352 |
| DE Germany | #694 | 13,173 | 12K rec. | — | — | Kaminski | 148 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 6,030 | 5.4K rec. | — | listed | Kaminski | 98 |
| BR Brazil | — | 2,912 | 3.1K rec. | 1 in 73K | 2.9K | Kaminski | 102 |
| CA Canada | — | 2,632 | 2.5K rec. | — | — | Kaminski | 84 |
| AU Australia | — | 2,310 | 2.1K rec. | — | — | Kaminski | 84 |
| IT Italy | — | 581 | 644 rec. | — | — | Kaminski | 12 |
| NO Norway | — | 384△ | 57 rec. | 1 in 14K | 384 | Kaminski | 11 |
| BZ Belize | #20 | 316 | 678 rec. | — | — | Kaminski | 3 |
| SG Singapore | — | 290 | 306 rec. | — | — | Kaminski | 5 |
| IE Ireland | — | 259 | 272 rec. | — | — | Kaminski | 11 |
Roughly 46K people in Poland bear this name (about 1 in 836). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English116K41%
- Polish113K40%
- German19K6%
- French8.5K3%
- Portuguese8.1K3%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 115,938 | 41% |
| Polish | 113,122 | 40% |
| German | 18,533 | 6% |
| French | 8,496 | 3% |
| Portuguese | 8,112 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Kaminski is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
habitational name from any of the places mentioned at 1 or from places in Ukraine named Kamin, from Ukrainian kamin ‘stone’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Polish, or stone-cutter, from Pol. kamien stone + -ski suffix of sur¬ names. 2. habitation name from any of the several places named with the Pol. word kamien stone, e.g. Kamieniec in Lower Silesia, with the addition of the local surname suffix -ski (see Baranowski).
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
habitational name for someone from any of various places named Kamionka in Polish or Kaminka in Ukrainian.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, Polnischer Familienname auf -ski; morphologisches Suffix zur Zugehörigkeit/Herkunft, hier patronymisch-lokativ. Demonstriert die Verbreitung von -sky/-ski-Formen.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, slawischer Familienname in -ski; patronymisch/ortsbezogen. 4040 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
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.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1891 | 4 |
| 1901 | 9 |
| 1911 | 12 |
| 1921 | 144 |
| 1931 | 195 |
| 1941 | 229 |
| 1951 | 319 |
| 1961 | 212 |
| 1971 | 204 |
| 1981 | 207 |
| 1991 | 143 |
FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Heinrich Kaminskib. 1886DEGerman composer (1886–1946)
- Grigory Kaminskyb. 1895UAnot in their usual nameSoviet politician (1895-1938)
- Bronislav Kaminskib. 1899PLPolish-Russian-German SS-Brigadeführer (1899-1944)
- Joseph Kaminskib. 1903ILIsraeli composer (1903–1972)
- Gerd Kaminskib. 1942ATAustrian legal scholar (1942–2022)
- Matthew Kaminskib. 1971USAmerican journalist
- Ilya Kaminskyb. 1977UAnot in their usual namepoet, critic, translator and professor
- Azmyth Kaminskib. 1980actor
- Jake Kaminskib. 1988USAmerican archer
- Thomas Kaminskib. 1992BEBelgian association football player (born 1992)
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●
Attested in 34 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 14K | #2,337 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 14K | #2,553 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 13K | #2,667 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.9K | #3,501 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 605 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 605 | #5,221 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 384 | #3,790 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 319 | — |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 233 | #7,578 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 229 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 212 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 207 | #4,026 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 49 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Kaminski?
- We estimate roughly 65 thousand people bear Kaminski (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
- In which country does Kaminski have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 46 thousand people bear Kaminski in Poland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled kaminski.
- Where is Kaminski most common?
- Kaminski is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 836 people carrying it.
- How common is Kaminski compared with other names?
- In Poland, Kaminski is the 12th most common surname of 614,248 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Kaminski mean?
- Recorded meaning: habitational name for someone from any of more than 60 villages and towns named Kamieii, from Polish kamieh ‘stone’, ‘rock’.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kaminski” — the 12th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.