The Cholewa surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 663 people carried this name — #34,223 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 454,500 people counted. That is up 4% from 635 in 2000.
In Poland’s population register
7,460 people named Cholewa have a registered home in Poland.
Of the 8,202 in Poland’s national register, these are the ones with a permanent address on file. They live in all 16 of Poland’s voivodeships, most of all in Lesser Poland.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
PESEL register, Ministry of Digital Affairs of Poland (dane.gov.pl) — CC0 · living people by voivodeship of permanent residence, 20 January 2026.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 67 people named Cholewa.
23 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 13 départements, most often Saône-et-Loire.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
20 people named Cholewa is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Who carried it
People named Cholewa,
with a public archive behind them.
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Jan Cholewa 1920–1966 · military personnel -
Fischel Herschel Cholewa 1885–1944
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Władysław Cholewa 1892–1962 · politician
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Stanisław Cholewa 1905– · association football player
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Magdalena Jakubowska 1908–2007
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Stanisław Cholewa 1914–1999 · association football player
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Cholewa.
- Chira 264 · U.S. census
- Chiri 164 · U.S. census
- Chmiel 1,690 · U.S. census
- Chmielewski 3,449 · U.S. census
- Chojnacki 1,630 · U.S. census
- Chol 384 · U.S. census
- Chollet 143 · U.S. census
- Chon 3,643 · U.S. census
- Chong 15,146 · U.S. census
- Chopin 622 · U.S. census
- Choplin 419 · U.S. census
- Choppin 130 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Cholewa is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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