The Gajewski surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 2,588 people carried this name — #12,048 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 113,600 people counted. About the same as in 2000 (2,591).
In Poland’s population register
23,991 people named Gajewski have a registered home in Poland.
Of the 26,428 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 Masovian.
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 162 people named Gajewski.
34 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 25 départements, most often Pas-de-Calais.
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
47 people named Gajewski 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).
In print
Gajewski in American newspapers,
1889–1912.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 1,657 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Gajewski,
with a public archive behind them.
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Fritz Gajewski 1885–1965 · merchant -
Franciszek Gajewski 1897–1969 · painter -
Wojciech Gajewski d. 1657
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Franciszek Gajewski 1675–1733
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Jan Gajewski 1709–1776 · regular cleric
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Rafał Tadeusz Gajewski 1714–1776
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Gajewski.
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