Poznanska Surname

2,007,164th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 87 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Poland
Highest density in:
Sweden

Poznanska Surname User-submission:

(Polish) One who came from Poznań, town belonging to the well known person (Polish posnać), meaning 'the well known town', a fittingly very famous city in western-central Poland on the River Warta, and common suffix -ski (feminine -ska), meaning 'from'.

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Poznanska Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Poland251:1,520,35087,293
England181:3,095,448105,421
United States171:21,321,114641,998
Sweden71:1,406,680102,017
Israel31:2,852,545113,505
Austria21:4,257,71899,224
Canada21:18,422,796409,488
Thailand21:35,319,172966,191
Scotland21:2,676,90851,579
Latvia11:2,050,04660,295
Ukraine11:45,522,696503,646
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
Norway11:5,142,286129,201
Argentina11:42,743,414282,706
Italy11:61,156,688199,583
Germany11:80,505,459560,955
Brazil11:214,074,3321,693,628
Australia11:26,995,701270,794

The alternate forms: Poznańska (28) & Poznañska (1) are calculated separately.

Poznanska Surname Meaning

User-submitted Reference

(Polish) One who came from Poznań, town belonging to the well known person (Polish posnać), meaning 'the well known town', a fittingly very famous city in western-central Poland on the River Warta, and common suffix -ski (feminine -ska), meaning 'from'.

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Poznanska Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Poznanska Come From? nationality or country of origin

Poznanska (Russian: Познанська) is more frequently found in Poland than any other country/territory. It can appear in the variant forms: Poznańska or Poznañska. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Poznanska? popularity and diffusion

It is the 2,007,164th most frequently held last name throughout the world, held by around 1 in 83,764,896 people. The surname is primarily found in Europe, where 69 percent of Poznanska live; 33 percent live in Northern Europe and 29 percent live in West Slavic Europe.

Poznanska is most frequently occurring in Poland, where it is held by 25 people, or 1 in 1,520,350. Besides Poland this last name is found in 17 countries. It is also common in England, where 21 percent reside and The United States, where 20 percent reside.

Poznanska Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those holding the last name is principally Orthodox (78%) in Ukraine.

Poznanska earn notably more than the average income. In United States they earn 22.15% more than the national average, earning $52,708 USD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

Poznanska Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Poznanska in the Russian language
Познанськаpoznanska-

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