The Kedziora surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 188 people carried this name — #96,799 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 1,666,700 people counted. That is up 11% from 169 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Kedziora surname
From kędzior (“lock of hair”).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Kędziora» (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
7,939 people named Kedziora have a registered home in Poland.
Of the 8,624 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 131 people named Kedziora.
39 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 11 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
28 people named Kedziora 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
Kedziora in American newspapers,
1901–1929.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 178 pages in all carry the name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Kedziora.
- Kazandjian 208 · U.S. census
- Kazmierczak 1,782 · U.S. census
- Kebe 437 · U.S. census
- Kechichian 142 · U.S. census
- Keck 11,186 · U.S. census
- Kedzierski 609 · U.S. census
- Kehl 2,514 · U.S. census
- Kehr 1,542 · U.S. census
- Kehren 202 · U.S. census
- Kehres 620 · U.S. census
- Keiffer 1,251 · U.S. census
- Keil 6,603 · U.S. census
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