Find out how popular the last name Kaczenski is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Kaczenski.

Kaczenski, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Kaczenski surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Kaczenski in America

Kaczenski is the 118853rd most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Kaczenski surname appeared 146 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 people would have the surname Kaczenski.

We can also compare 2010 data for Kaczenski to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Kaczenski

The surname Kaczenski originates from Poland, deriving from the Polish word "kaczka" meaning "duck." It likely emerged in the 13th or 14th century as a nickname for someone who kept or worked with ducks.

One of the earliest recorded instances of the name appears in the 1490 Akta Grodzkie, a collection of court records from the Polish town of Krakow. An entry mentions a Stanislaw Kaczenski who was a landowner in the nearby village of Czulice.

By the 16th century, variants like Kaczensky and Kaczinski were also seen, reflecting regional spelling differences. A 1569 document from the Tarnow archives lists a Jakub Kaczensky as a burgher (town resident) of that city.

The name spread across Poland over the following centuries. Notable bearers include Jan Kaczenski (1637-1721), a Catholic priest and rector of Krakow University in the late 1600s. Another was Michal Kaczenski (1780-1845), a Polish general who fought against Russia in the November Uprising of 1830-31.

As Polish immigrants came to America in the 19th century, the name took on variants like Kaczynski to match English spelling conventions. Jozef Kaczynski (1826-1904) was among the first, settling in Detroit after fleeing anti-Polish repression in his homeland.

Other prominent individuals with this surname were Mieczyslaw Kaczynski (1892-1942), a engineer killed at Auschwitz, and American serial killer Theodore Kaczynski (1942-present), known as the "Unabomber." The mathematician Stanislaw Kaczenski (1825-1891) made contributions to the field of differential geometry.

While concentrated in Polish communities, the name could be found across Eastern Europe where Polish migration occurred, reflecting its origin as a distinctly Polish surname rooted in the medieval era.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Kaczenski

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Kaczenski.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Kaczenski was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Kaczenski has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Kaczenski was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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