Sowinski Surname
Approximately 4,175 people bear this surname
Sowinski Surname Definition:
(Polish) One who came from Sowa or Sowin (owl), the name of places in Ukraine and Byelorussia.
Sowinski Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 2,454 | 1:147,701 | 15,238 |
| Germany | 515 | 1:156,321 | 18,676 |
| France | 350 | 1:189,779 | 29,542 |
| Canada | 250 | 1:147,382 | 15,086 |
| Poland | 178 | 1:213,532 | 28,138 |
| England | 131 | 1:425,329 | 28,711 |
| Brazil | 57 | 1:3,755,690 | 104,031 |
| Australia | 53 | 1:509,353 | 38,491 |
| Belgium | 27 | 1:425,802 | 43,971 |
| Denmark | 22 | 1:256,578 | 19,736 |
| Sweden | 21 | 1:468,893 | 33,666 |
| Austria | 16 | 1:532,215 | 49,801 |
| Ireland | 15 | 1:313,929 | 10,911 |
| Norway | 15 | 1:342,819 | 32,589 |
| Argentina | 14 | 1:3,053,101 | 127,728 |
| Thailand | 10 | 1:7,063,834 | 426,148 |
| Wales | 7 | 1:442,076 | 21,198 |
| New Zealand | 6 | 1:754,720 | 41,661 |
| Scotland | 5 | 1:1,070,763 | 31,189 |
| Netherlands | 4 | 1:4,221,794 | 131,139 |
| Switzerland | 4 | 1:2,053,229 | 97,179 |
| Venezuela | 3 | 1:10,068,026 | 60,591 |
| South Africa | 3 | 1:18,059,235 | 248,362 |
| Czechia | 2 | 1:5,316,734 | 169,646 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Chile | 1 | 1:17,616,474 | 93,597 |
| Uruguay | 1 | 1:3,431,758 | 38,295 |
| Cyprus | 1 | 1:884,876 | 13,055 |
| Dominican Republic | 1 | 1:10,432,932 | 36,508 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Estonia | 1 | 1:1,321,804 | 40,178 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 1 | 1:5,972,654 | 99,197 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
The alternate forms: Sowiński (15,507) & Sowiñski (2) are calculated separately.
Sowinski Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
(Polish) One who came from Sowa or Sowin (owl), the name of places in Ukraine and Byelorussia.
Sowinski Demographics
Average Sowinski Salary in
United States
$45,960 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Sowinski Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sowinski Come From? nationality or country of origin
Sowinski is more commonly found in The United States than any other country/territory. It may be rendered as: Sowiński or Sowiñski. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Sowinski? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 111,263rd most widely held last name at a global level, held by around 1 in 1,745,520 people. The last name occurs mostly in The Americas, where 67 percent of Sowinski reside; 65 percent reside in North America and 65 percent reside in Anglo-North America.
The surname is most frequent in The United States, where it is held by 2,454 people, or 1 in 147,701. In The United States it is most frequent in: Illinois, where 17 percent reside, Wisconsin, where 13 percent reside and New York, where 11 percent reside. Aside from The United States this surname is found in 36 countries. It is also found in Germany, where 12 percent reside and France, where 8 percent reside.
Sowinski Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Sowinski last name are 5.31% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 52.08% registered to vote for the party.
The amount Sowinski earn in different countries varies significantly. In Norway they earn 12.42% less than the national average, earning 303,097 kr per year; in South Africa they earn 20.28% less than the national average, earning R 189,456 per year; in United States they earn 6.51% more than the national average, earning $45,960 USD per year and in Canada they earn 10.23% more than the national average, earning $54,767 CAD per year.
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Sowinski Reference & Research
Sowinski FamilyTree DNA Project - A description of a group researching the paternal lines of men who bear the surname with the help of DNA analysis.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Sowinski
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