Explore the Family Name Zaniewski

The meaning of Zaniewski

Polish: habitational name for someone from any of the places called Zanie in Podlaskie, Warmian-Masurian and Lublin voivodeships, or Zaniewicze, several places in present-day Belarus. Some characteristic forenames: Polish Kazimierz, Franciszek, Jaroslaw, Jozef, Tadeusz.

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How common is the last name Zaniewski in the United States?

Based on the Decennial U.S. Census, the popularity of the surname Zaniewski showed a slight decrease from 2000 to 2010. In 2000, Zaniewski ranked as the 50,178th most common surname in the United States with an occurrence of 392 instances per 100,000 people. However, by 2010, it had slipped in its ranking to 52,851st, despite the count of individuals carrying this surname remained constant at 392. The proportion per 100,000 people also decreased by 13.33 percent over this ten-year period.

	2000	2010	Change
Rank	#50,178	#52,851	-5.33%
Count	392	392	0%
Proportion per 100k	0.15	0.13	-13.33%

Race and Ethnicity of people with the last name Zaniewski

In terms of ethnicity, the Decennial U.S. Census data tells us that the majority of individuals with the Zaniewski surname identify as White, with this group increasing from 95.15 percent in 2000 to 97.45 percent in 2010. There was a small percentage, 2.04 percent, who identified as Hispanic in 2000, but this number dipped to 1.53 percent by 2010. Meanwhile, there were no reported instances of individuals with this surname identifying as Asian/Pacific Islander, Black, or American Indian and Alaskan Native in either census year. Interestingly, those identifying as two or more races dropped from 2.3 percent in 2000 to zero in 2010.

	2000	2010	Change
White	95.15%	97.45%	2.42%
Hispanic	2.04%	1.53%	-25%
Asian/Pacific Islander	0%	0%	0%
Two or More Races	2.3%	0%	0%
Black	0%	0%	0%
American Indian and Alaskan Native	0%	0%	0%