Surname GRATKOWSKI

People with the surname GRATKOWSKI in the PESEL register on 20 January 2026: 327 men and 3 women. Most registered in: PODKARPACKIE.

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male

327people in the PESEL register · 20 January 2026

about 1 in 64,824

Most registered in: PODKARPACKIE (45.2%, 20 January 2026)

female

3people in the PESEL register · 20 January 2026

about 1 in 7,186,767

Each 1-in-X is computed within its own dataset. The datasets are different sizes, so these two figures are not compared with each other.

How many people have this surname?

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How many people have this surname?

The PESEL register publishes two separate surname lists, male and female. We show each figure on its own and never add them up.

male

327 people were registered with the surname GRATKOWSKI (male) in the PESEL register on 20 January 2026.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

female

3 people were registered with the surname GRATKOWSKI (female) in the PESEL register on 20 January 2026.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

The male and female datasets are separate and are never summed.

How rare is this surname?

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How rare is this surname?

“1 in X” means that roughly one in every X people on this list has this surname. The bigger X, the rarer the name. The rank counts from the most common surname on the list.

male

about 1 in 64,824

#9,974 rank on the surname list

About 1 in 64,824 people counted in the PESEL register (male) bore the surname GRATKOWSKI on 20 January 2026.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

GRATKOWSKI (male) ranked 9,974 among the surnames in this dataset.

Neighbours on the list
  1. #9,942ŻABSKI328
  2. #9,942ZUBOWICZ328
  3. #9,974GRATKOWSKI this surname327
  4. #10,000BOGUNIA326
  5. #10,000BRAUER326

female

about 1 in 7,186,767

#245,482 rank on the surname list

About 1 in 7,186,767 people counted in the PESEL register (female) bore the surname GRATKOWSKI on 20 January 2026.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

GRATKOWSKI (female) ranked 245,482 among the surnames in this dataset.

Neighbours on the list
  1. #212,526ŻYZIŃSKA4
  2. #212,526ŻYZNOMIRSKA4
  3. #245,482GRATKOWSKI this surname3
  4. #301,308BIEGAŃSKI2
  5. #301,308SOBOCIŃSKI2

Two places above and two below on the same list. Surnames with the same count share a place.

The other grammatical form

GRATKOWSKA (female): 311 people, rank 10,668 on the surname list on 20 January 2026.

The same surname in the other grammatical gender, on the other list. It says nothing about kinship.

Where is it most often registered?

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Where is it most often registered?

The map and the list show the voivodeships where people with this surname have a registered permanent address. The brighter the colour and the longer the bar, the bigger the share.

male

Among the 294 people with the surname GRATKOWSKI (male) who had a registered voivodeship on 20 January 2026, 45.2% were registered in PODKARPACKIE.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

DOLNOŚLĄSKIE: 8.2% (24)KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE: 16.0% (47)LUBELSKIE: 0.7% (2)LUBUSKIE: 2.7% (8)ŁÓDZKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroMAŁOPOLSKIE: 2.7% (8)MAZOWIECKIE: 7.1% (21)OPOLSKIE: 3.1% (9)PODKARPACKIE: 45.2% (133)PODLASKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroPOMORSKIE: 1.4% (4)ŚLĄSKIE: 1.0% (3)ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE: 1.0% (3)WARMIŃSKO-MAZURSKIE: 1.4% (4)WIELKOPOLSKIE: 6.8% (20)ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE: 2.7% (8)

Hover over or tap a voivodeship to see its figures.

Share of people with a registered voivodeship, lowest first:
  • 0%–10%
  • 10%–20%
  • 20%–30%
  • 30%–40%
  • 40%–50%
  • not listed in the dataset — not zero
Shares are of the people with a registered voivodeship, not of every bearer of the surname.
VoivodeshipShareCount
PODKARPACKIE45.2%133
KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE16.0%47
DOLNOŚLĄSKIE8.2%24
MAZOWIECKIE7.1%21
WIELKOPOLSKIE6.8%20
OPOLSKIE3.1%9
LUBUSKIE2.7%8
MAŁOPOLSKIE2.7%8
ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE2.7%8
POMORSKIE1.4%4
WARMIŃSKO-MAZURSKIE1.4%4
ŚLĄSKIE1.0%3
ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE1.0%3
LUBELSKIE0.7%2

How did this count change between editions of the list?

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How did this count change between editions of the list?

The PESEL register publishes its lists every year. We show the number of people with this surname on each edition, beside how the whole list changed. We say what changed, not why.

male

The number of people with the surname GRATKOWSKI (male) in the PESEL register changed from 330 on 30 June 2019 to 327 on 20 January 2026: −0.9%. The whole list changed by +6.7% between those editions.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

As ofShare of the listPeople
30 June 2019*1 in 60,181330
22 January 20201 in 59,877332
1 February 20211 in 60,567330
27 January 20221 in 61,223330
30 January 20231 in 63,246329
19 January 20241 in 63,759329
22 January 20251 in 64,122329
20 January 20261 in 64,824327

* The 2019 files describe their contents in fewer words than the later ones. We read them as the same list: people with their current surname.

female

The number of people with the surname GRATKOWSKI (female) in the PESEL register changed from 4 on 30 June 2019 to 3 on 20 January 2026: −25.0%. The whole list changed by +6.5% between those editions.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

As ofShare of the listPeople
30 June 2019*1 in 5,062,3304
22 January 20201 in 5,055,0864
2 February 20211 in 5,065,8034
27 January 2022The publisher's file dated 27 January 2022 repeats the data of the previous edition, so it is not shown as an edition of its own.
30 January 20231 in 7,123,1593
19 January 20241 in 7,159,7953
22 January 20251 in 7,178,5053
20 January 20261 in 7,186,7673

* The 2019 files describe their contents in fewer words than the later ones. We read them as the same list: people with their current surname.

What does this surname mean?

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What does this surname mean?

We give a meaning only when a scholarly work supports it. We don't guess.

We have no sourced meaning for this surname. We could not find it in any scholarly work we are able to cite here, and we do not guess at meanings.

Where does it appear in old print?

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Where does it appear in old print?

Polona, the National Library's digital library, searches its catalogue and the text of its scanned pages. We show how many results it returns for this word, and from which years.

The word GRATKOWSKI appears on 653 pages of works not under copyright and in 13 catalogue records in Polona (searched on 5 October 2026).

VerifiedDigital libraryPoland · Biblioteka Narodowa · 5 October 2026

These are search results for the word in any inflected form. Some may be another meaning of the same spelling, and they are not a count of people or of mentions of anyone's family.

Pages by date of publication
  1. 1800–184971
  2. 1850–1899101
  3. 1900–1918153
  4. 1919–1939110
  5. 1940 on213

Catalogue records by kind

  • Books2

Most common places of publication

  • Warszawa331
  • Kraków117
  • Chicago, IL67
  • Poznań26
  • Lwów15
  • Lublin10

Example pages in the public domain

„Gratkowski Lipno, Inhaber Kauf mann Abram Gratkowski Lipno. 56.”

Kreisblatt für den Verwaltungsbezirk Lipno (Kreise Lipno u. Rypin) : amtliches Bekanntmachungeblatt = Gazeta Urzędowa Lipnoskiego Zarządu Okręgowego (powiatów Lipno i Rypin) : urzędowy organ ogłoszeń 1917, nr 51, 62 (3 maja) + dod.1917 · p. 13 · Polona, Biblioteka NarodowaOpen the page in Polona

„Graefe XI. 367, Gratkowski VII. 12. Grilndlich VIII. 441. Hankowie XI. 340.”

Skorowidz Dzienników Praw Xięstwa Warszawskiego i Królestwa Polskiego po tom 45 włącznie przez urzędników sądowych ułożony1853 · p. 140 · Polona, Biblioteka NarodowaOpen the page in Polona

„W instytucji zapisał go Gratkowski.”

Katalog Prałatów i Kanoników Sandomierskich od 1186 do 1926 r. ; tudzież sesje Kapituły Sandomierskiej od 1581 do 1866 r1926 · p. 625 · Polona, Biblioteka NarodowaOpen the page in Polona

Who well known has this surname?

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Who well known has this surname?

We have not looked this surname up in Wikidata yet.

How do we know?

Sources on this page

  • Official data Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji — Nazwiska występujące w rejestrze PESEL · 20 January 2026 · CC0 1.0 · Dane pochodzą z rejestru PESEL, Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji, dane.gov.pl (CC0 1.0) · dane.gov.pl
  • Digital library Biblioteka Narodowa — Polona · Polona, Biblioteka Narodowa · polona.pl
How to read these figures
  • Wykaz nazwisk męskich osób żyjących (wg pola nazwisko aktualne) występujących w rejestrze PESEL, stan na 20.01.2026
  • Surnames occurring once are not published; absence from the dataset is not zero.
  • The publisher does not state whether the split is by a person's sex or by the grammatical gender of the surname form. The datasets are therefore neither summed nor compared numerically.
  • The male and female datasets are separate and are never summed.
  • Wykaz nazwisk żeńskich osób żyjących (wg pola nazwisko aktualne) występujących w rejestrze PESEL, stan na 20.01.2026
  • Denominator: 21,197,537 people counted in the PESEL register — the sum of the published counts in this dataset, not Poland's population.
  • The 1-in-X figure is rounded; the count of people is exact.
  • Denominator: 21,560,302 people counted in the PESEL register — the sum of the published counts in this dataset, not Poland's population.
  • A permanent registered residence is an address in the register — not an actual address, and not information about a family's roots.
  • Shares are of the people with a registered voivodeship, not of every bearer of the surname.
  • The size of the list itself changes between editions, so beside the count we show the share of that edition's list (“1 in X”).
  • Polona's figures are search results for the word in any inflected form, in the catalogue and in the text of pages of works not under copyright; not every result is the surname.

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