The Kujawa surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 3,039 people carried this name — #10,548 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 97,100 people counted. That is up 1% from 3,016 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Kujawa surname
From Kujawa (“any of several villages”) or Kujawy (“Kuyavia, region in north-central Poland”).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Kujawa» (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
12,259 people named Kujawa have a registered home in Poland.
Of the 13,630 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 160 people named Kujawa.
46 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 22 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
36 people named Kujawa 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
Kujawa in American newspapers,
1911–1928.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 3,493 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Kujawa,
with a public archive behind them.
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Nikodem Kujawa 1898–1920 -
Teresa Kujawa 1927–2020 -
Marceli Kujawa-Połczyński 1844–1910 · writer
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Ignacy Kujawa 1890–1979 · mechanic
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Franciszek Kujawa 1892–1963 · politician
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Serge Kujawa 1924–2014 · politician
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Kujawa.
- Kuhl 5,872 · U.S. census
- Kuhlmann 2,981 · U.S. census
- Kuhn 31,776 · U.S. census
- Kuhne 679 · U.S. census
- Kuhnel 339 · U.S. census
- Kuhner 467 · U.S. census
- Kukla 1,718 · U.S. census
- Kula 3,012 · U.S. census
- Kulas 2,195 · U.S. census
- Kulczak 122 · U.S. census
- Kulig 1,118 · U.S. census
- Kulik 2,137 · U.S. census
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