The Gawel surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 998 people carried this name — #24,914 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 294,100 people counted. That is up 6% from 943 in 2000.
In Poland’s population register
8,618 people named Gawel have a registered home in Poland.
Of the 9,377 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 Subcarpathian.
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 57 people named Gawel.
Most of them — 33 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 9 départements, most often Nord.
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 Argentina’s national register
At least 31 people named Gawel live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In the Nordic population registers
21 people named Gawel 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).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Gawel.
- Gava 151 · U.S. census
- Gavazzi 258 · U.S. census
- Gave 222 · U.S. census
- Gavel 481 · U.S. census
- Gaven 161 · U.S. census
- Gavin 14,061 · U.S. census
- Gawlik 1,314 · U.S. census
- Gawron 961 · U.S. census
- Gawronski 1,080 · U.S. census
- Gay 32,025 · U.S. census
- Gaya 196 · U.S. census
- Gayan 178 · U.S. census
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