The Gawron surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 961 people carried this name — #25,659 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 303,000 people counted. That is up 3% from 937 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Gawron surname
From gawron (“rook”).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Gawron» (Polish), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Poland’s population register
10,240 people named Gawron have a registered home in Poland.
Of the 11,257 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 Silesian.
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 86 people named Gawron.
28 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 17 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
22 people named Gawron 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 Gawron,
with a public archive behind them.
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Andrzej Gawron 1897–1940 · police officer -
Józef Gawron 1904–1969 · politician
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Wincenty Gawron 1908–1991
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Paweł Gawron 1921–1983 · athlete
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Bolesław Gawron 1921–1943
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Jan Gawron 1938–2026 · painter
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Gawron.
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