Kowalczyk

Last updated August 26, 2025

Kowalczyk is the fifth most common surname in Poland (98,739 people in 2009).^[1] The name comes from the word "blacksmith".

Notable people

The surname may refer to:

Adam Kowalczyk (born 1975), American musician, brother of Ed Kowalczyk
Antoine Kowalczyk, (1866–1947), Polish-Canadian, Servant of God
August Kowalczyk (1921–2012), Polish actor
Bartosz Kowalczyk (born 1996), Polish handball player
Bogdan Kowalczyk (born 1946), Polish handball player
Ed Kowalczyk (born 1971), American rock singer, brother of Adam Kowalczyk
Henryk Kowalczyk (born 1956), Polish politician
Ignace Kowalczyk (1913–1996), German-French footballer
Jacek Kowalczyk (born 1981), Polish footballer
Jan Kowalczyk (1941–2020), Polish show jumping champion
Jarosław Kowalczyk (born 1989), Polish cyclist
Józef Kowalczyk (1938–2025), Polish clergyman, archbishop of Gniezno
Justyna Kowalczyk (born 1983), Polish cross-country skier
Kamil Kowalczyk, Polish footballer
Maciej Kowalczyk (born 1977), Polish footballer
Marcin Kowalczyk (born 1985), Polish footballer
Marek Kowalczyk, Polish footballer
Mariano Kowalczyk (born 1971), Argentine rower
Mateusz Kowalczyk (tennis) (born 1987), Polish tennis player
Mateusz Kowalczyk (footballer) (born 2004), Polish tennis player
Sebastian Kowalczyk (born 1998), Polish footballer
Sugar Kowalczyk, 1959 American crime comedy Some Like It Hot character
Tod Kowalczyk (born 1966), American college basketball coach
Ulrich Kowalczyk, German football manager
Walt Kowalczyk (1935–2018), American football player in the National Football League
Wojciech Kowalczyk (born 1972), Polish footballer
Kowalczyk brothers (1937-2017), Polish scientists who planted a bomb at the University of Opole in 1971

References

↑ Ministry of Interior (Poland). Statystyka najpopularniejszych nazwisk występujących w Polsce in 2009 Archived 2013-09-28 at the Wayback Machine (The most popular surnames in Poland in 2009). Retrieved2013-02-28.

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[1] Ministry of Interior (Poland). Statystyka najpopularniejszych nazwisk występujących w Polsce in 2009 Archived 2013-09-28 at the Wayback Machine (The most popular surnames in Poland in 2009). Retrieved2013-02-28.

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v t e Surnames associated with the occupation of smith
Celtic	Goff Goffe Gow Gowan Gowans Le Goff Mac a' Ghobhainn MacGavin / McGavin MacGowan / McGowan
Germanic	Brenneis De Smedt De Smet Eisen Eisler Eisner Kleinschmidt Klier Klingbeil Klinkhamer Klinkhammer Nagel Pinkert Schmid Schmidt Schmied Schmiedel Schmiedl Schmieden Schmitt Schmitz Schmitzer Smed Smeets Smet Smets Smidt Smit (Smith, list) Smithe Smither Smithers Smithies Smithson Smits Smyth Smythe Szmidt Šmíd
Romance	Fabbri Faber Fabre Fabri Faure Favre Feaver Ferrara Ferrari Ferraris Ferraro Ferré Ferreira Ferrer Ferrero Ferreiro Ferretti Ferreyra Ferrier Ferriero Fieraru Fierarul Herrera Herrero Lefébure Lefebvre Lefèvre
Semitic	Haddad Hadodo Al-Haddad El-Haddad
Slavic	Covaci Coval Covali Covaliov Kavalyow Kovač Kováč Kovach Kovačević Kovačevič Kovačovič Kovačev Kovachev Kovačec Kovačevski Kovačić Kovačič Kovačik Kováčik Kovack Kovács Koval Kovalchuk Kovalenko Kovalevich Kovalevsky Kovalic Kovalik Kovalik Kovalkov Kovals Kovalsky Kovalyov Kovalyuk Kovář Kovařík Kowal Kowalik Kowalczyk Kowalczuk Kowalewicz Kowalewski Kowalski Kuznets Kuznetsov Kuźniar
Other	Armenian: Darbinyan Baltic Kalējs Kalvaitis (Kalwejt, Kallweit, etc.) Kavaliauskas Šmits Finnic Sepp Seppä Seppänen Seppälä Indic: Lohar Kartvelian Mchedlidze Mchedlishvili Turkic Demirci Demircioğlu
From "spark" rel. to occ. 'smith'	Funk Funke Vonck Vonk

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