Borowski
surname · Latin script
Meaning: name from a place named from Pol
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/bɝˈɔfski/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Borowski is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 87K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 3.1K
- NONorway1 in 45K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 300 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.1K (inferred from the name graph)
12,531 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)name from a place named from Pol. bor pine forest + -6w possessive suffix, with the adition of -ski suffix of local sur¬ names (see Baranowski). The Pol. word borowik means ‘forest mushroom’, and in some cases surnames of this group may derive from it. In the case of Jewish instances of these surnames, the origin is generally ornamental.
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Borowski 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.
12,531 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)- Antoni Beszta-Borowskib. 1880PLPolish Roman Catholic priest (1880–1943)
- Tadeusz Borowskib. 1922UAPolish writer and journalist (1922-1951)
- Paul Borowskib. 1937DEEast German sailor (1937–2012)
- Tadeusz Borowskib. 1941PLPolish actor
- Marek Borowskib. 1946PLPolish politician
- John Borowskib. 1953USAmerican filmmaker
- Jörn Borowskib. 1959DEEast German sailor
- Joe Borowskib. 1971USAmerican baseball player
- Rasmus Borowskib. 1974DEGerman composer, actor, singer and voice-actor
- Tim Borowskib. 1980DEGerman footballer (born 1980)
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)30 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 12K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 12K | #99 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.9K | #7,771 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.8K | #8,609 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.5K | #9,081 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 484 | #17,575 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 145 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 128 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 128 | #24,477 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 122 | #12,885 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 56 | #11,558 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 52 | #21,861 |
Reference works 7
- 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)
- 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)
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Borowski come from?
- name from a place named from Pol. bor pine forest + -6w possessive suffix, with the adition of -ski suffix of local sur¬ names (see Baranowski). The Pol. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Borowski?
- A machine transcription gives /bɝˈɔfski/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Borowski mean?
- Recorded meaning: name from a place named from Pol.
- In which country does Borowski have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Borowski, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled borowski.
- Where is Borowski most common?
- Borowski is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Borowski?
- In Poland, the national register counted 12,531 people named Borowski in 2026, about 1 in 3.1 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/borowskiThe 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, “Borowski”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.