The Kaczmarek surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 4,052 people carried this name — #8,184 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 73,000 people counted. That is up 3% from 3,937 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Kaczmarek surname
From kaczma, karczmarz.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Kaczmarek» (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
54,600 people named Kaczmarek have a registered home in Poland.
Of the 60,060 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 Greater 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 1,149 people named Kaczmarek.
362 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 51 départements, most often Pas-de-Calais.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
100 people named Kaczmarek live in Switzerland.
They live in 12 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 87 people named Kaczmarek 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 Misiones.
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
148 people named Kaczmarek 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
Kaczmarek in American newspapers,
1917–1929.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 4,711 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Kaczmarek,
with a public archive behind them.
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Ignacy Kaczmarek 1888–1975 · engineer -
Jan Stanisław Kaczmarek 1894–1981 · military officer -
Czesław Kaczmarek 1895–1963 · Catholic priest -
Jan Kaczmarek 1895–1977 · politician -
Wojciech Kaczmarek 1899–1968 · military personnel
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 217 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Kaczmarek.
- Ka 795 · U.S. census
- Kaas 620 · U.S. census
- Kaba 1,991 · U.S. census
- Kacher 274 · U.S. census
- Kaczka 255 · U.S. census
- Kaczmarczyk 1,275 · U.S. census
- Kaczmarski 704 · U.S. census
- Kaczor 1,711 · U.S. census
- Kaczorowski 839 · U.S. census
- Kada 212 · U.S. census
- Kader 969 · U.S. census
- Kadi 334 · U.S. census
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