The Glowacki surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 2,339 people carried this name — #13,107 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 126,600 people counted. That is down 2% from 2,381 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Glowacki surname
From głowa (“head”) + -cki (surname-forming suffix).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entries «Glowacki» (English) and «Głowacki» (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
24,685 people named Glowacki have a registered home in Poland.
Of the 27,690 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 201 people named Glowacki.
52 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 24 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 the Nordic population registers
51 people named Glowacki 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
Glowacki in American newspapers,
1897–1961.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 2,072 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Glowacki,
with a public archive behind them.
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Francois Glowacki 1971– · researcher
Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Glowacki.
- Glod 431 · U.S. census
- Gloeckler 208 · U.S. census
- Glon 171 · U.S. census
- Gloria 4,878 · U.S. census
- Glory 278 · U.S. census
- Glotz 131 · U.S. census
- Glowacz 180 · U.S. census
- Gluck 4,267 · U.S. census
- Gobbi 396 · U.S. census
- Gobbo 227 · U.S. census
- Gobel 1,741 · U.S. census
- Gobert 1,827 · U.S. census
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