The Kaminska surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 316 people carried this name — #63,218 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 909,100 people counted. That is up 20% from 263 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Kaminska surname
From Kamiński + -a.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Kamińska» (Polish), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 98 people named Kaminska.
Most of them — 80 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 8 départements, most often Yvelines.
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 Belgium’s population register
At least 30 people named Kaminska live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Brussels-Capital.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
29 people named Kaminska live in Switzerland.
They live in 6 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 the Nordic population registers
150 people named Kaminska 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 Kaminska,
with a public archive behind them.
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Zofia Trzcińska-Kamińska 1890–1977 · sculptor
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Sofia Kaminska 1907– · farmworker
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Iwona Kaminska 1959– · basketball player
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Valiantsina Kaminskaya 1987– · cross-country skier
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Valiantsina Kaminskaya 1987– · cross-country skier
Wikidata (CC0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Kaminska.
- Kaluza 679 · U.S. census
- Kaluzny 435 · U.S. census
- Kam 3,749 · U.S. census
- Kamal 2,623 · U.S. census
- Kamara 6,288 · U.S. census
- Kamel 1,477 · U.S. census
- Kaminski 14,152 · U.S. census
- Kamm 2,202 · U.S. census
- Kammer 2,648 · U.S. census
- Kammerer 3,659 · U.S. census
- Kamp 4,131 · U.S. census
- Kampf 917 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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