as a Last Name
- 1,558
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Tarnowski
Meaning & Origins
Polish and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): habitational name for someone from any of the places called Tarnów, Tarnowa, Tarnowiec, and Tarnowo (named with Polish tarn ‘blackthorn’ + -ów suffix). In the case of the Jewish surname, the source is usually, if not exclusively, Tarnów in southern Poland.
| 18,313th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,558
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Minnesota
- has the most people named Tarnowski per capita
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