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THE MEANING OF YOUR POLISH LAST NAME?

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mem	Sep 19, 09, 21:16 / #421
how bout: bialoglovski

Polonius3Threads: 666 Posts: 2,597 Joined: Apr 11, 08 Gender: Male	Sep 19, 09, 22:42 / #422
BIAŁOGŁOWSKA - from białogłowa, literally whtie head, an old-fashion name for a married woman; there is also a Białogłowski coat of arms depicting three white skulls (białe głowy) on a red shield.

chadolesThreads: - Posts: 1 Joined: Sep 20, 09 Gender: Male	Sep 20, 09, 09:49 / #423
does anyone know where the last name oleszczuk comes from

Polonius3Threads: 666 Posts: 2,597 Joined: Apr 11, 08 Gender: Male	Sep 20, 09, 14:34 / #424
English equivalent would be Alecson (patronymic nick); -uk ending suggests Ruthenian (eastern) origin.

mmhloverThreads: - Posts: 1 Joined: Sep 20, 09 Gender: Female	Sep 20, 09, 20:51 / #425
what does my last name szynalski mean?

Polonius3Threads: 666 Posts: 2,597 Joined: Apr 11, 08 Gender: Male	Edited by: Polonius3 Sep 20, 09, 22:12 / #426
SZYNALSKI - from szynal (rail nail, large nail used for railway sleepers, rafters, &c.), adapted from German Schienenagel.

szczerbiecThreads: - Posts: 1 Joined: Sep 21, 09 Gender: Male	Edited by: szczerbiec Sep 21, 09, 01:19 / #427
My Family Names: DOSTATNI and GRUZ.........and please, the meanings are? Does 'Dostatni' have a Czech origin? Does Gruz...maybe from 'Gruzajny' have a Lithuanian origin?

Polonius3Threads: 666 Posts: 2,597 Joined: Apr 11, 08 Gender: Male	Sep 21, 09, 12:27 / #428
DOSTATNI - well-to-do, affleunt; common to Polish, Czech and probably other Slavonic tongues GRUZ - multiple possible sources: 1) gruz = rubble; 2) Grużajny - village in Masuria; 3) Gruzin = Georgian.

rbaran1Threads: - Posts: 1 Joined: Sep 22, 09 Gender: Female	Sep 22, 09, 06:41 / #429
I am trying to find out anything about my father's Cytryn family. Last year I discovered my whole family was jewish, and had changed their names after surviving the Holocaust. My father's real name was Jakub Cytryn, a building engineer in Warsaw. His father (first name some variant of Mojzesz) was also a builder. They lived in Warsaw at Leszno 56 in 1939. My father's mother Masza Guzik was the older sister of David Guzik (JDC Director of Poland during the war). I believe the name has to do with quartz stone (english: citrine) rather than lemons, because I was told a story about my father putting a piece of citrine on his first wife's grave in Krakow. Anything you can tell me would be appreciated. R Baran NYC

Polonius3Threads: 666 Posts: 2,597 Joined: Apr 11, 08 Gender: Male	Sep 22, 09, 12:05 / #430
The ancestral nest appears to be in the SE corner of Poland (former Galicja). Of your 195 namesakes, the most live in and around Przemyśl (79) with a bit of spill-over into the neighbouring Rzeszów area (19).

SierowskiThreads: - Posts: 5 Joined: Jun 4, 09 Gender: Male	Sep 23, 09, 14:10 / #431
Czobot

Polonius3Threads: 666 Posts: 2,597 Joined: Apr 11, 08 Gender: Male	Sep 23, 09, 21:30 / #432
CZOBOT AND CZOBUT were a kind of boot, from Ukrainian ЧОБІT

Polonius3Threads: 666 Posts: 2,597 Joined: Apr 11, 08 Gender: Male	Sep 25, 09, 12:55 / #433
madurski: My last name is Madurski...does that mean anything in Polish? Madurski is a real stumper. It probably arose as a patornymic to mean son of Madura, but the what does Madura mean? There are Straits fo Madura in Indonesia, but that hardly seems a likely soruce. There is a locality in Belarus called Madora, but that would have produced Madorski. Unelss we assume someone wrote Madorski without closing his 'o' and someone re-copied it s as 'u'. A very shaky hypothesis! Maybe some otehr PF-er might have a better explanation?

Polonius3Threads: 666 Posts: 2,597 Joined: Apr 11, 08 Gender: Male	Edited by: Moderator Sep 26, 09, 23:46 / #434
Frances: YOUNG POLISH 1 WHAT IS THE MEANING OF SAJDLOSKI SADŁOWSK:99% of -owski surnames are of toponymic origin, hence Sajdłowski would induicate an inhabitant of Sajdłów or Sajdłowo. JBublitz: Anyone know what (if anything) Bublitz means? Been trying to find out for years. I have heard differant variations on it though, the name supossidly comes from the Pomeranian town of Bobolice (Bublitz possably being a differant spelling). BOBOLICE: Bublitz is the German name for the town of Bobolice in the Baltic coastal region's Koszalin area. It comes from the Polish surname Bobola (a famous Polish saint is Andrzej Bobola), and means 'the place settled by Bobola's sons'. Not necessarily that Bobola who was a celibate monk.

honkeykongThreads: - Posts: 1 Joined: Sep 27, 09 Gender: Male	Sep 27, 09, 08:13 / #435
crystaloski/kristolawsky? can anyone tell me what my last name means and where it is from. my grandpa told me its prussian and the family came over around the 1870s.

Polonius3Threads: 666 Posts: 2,597 Joined: Apr 11, 08 Gender: Male	Sep 27, 09, 13:19 / #436
KRYSZTAŁOWSKI - used by only 19 people in Poland would have originated as a toponymic nickname for an inhabitant of Kryształów or Kryształowo (Crystalville, Crystalton, Crystalbury).

Polonius3Threads: 666 Posts: 2,597 Joined: Apr 11, 08 Gender: Male	Sep 29, 09, 19:16 / #437
gogo: What is the meaning of Walczuk WALCZUK - eastern (Ukrainian) patronymic nick from Christian names Walenty or Walerian; something like Valson in English.

LAGirlThreads: 12 Posts: 572 Joined: Apr 11, 08 Gender: Female	Sep 29, 09, 21:04 / #438
My boyfriends name is Chilicki what about that one?

Polonius3Threads: 666 Posts: 2,597 Joined: Apr 11, 08 Gender: Male	Sep 29, 09, 21:52 / #439
CHILICKI (pronoucned: heel-EETS-kee) arose as a toponymc nick from the town of Chylice. Chilicki is a variant spelling of the more common Chylicki. The chyl root suggests somethign like bending, drooping or keeling over and the -ice ending means 'sons of', so the whole surname migth tranlate as 'the bloke friom Bendsonsville'.

lps2015Threads: - Posts: 1 Joined: Oct 1, 09 Gender: Male	Oct 1, 09, 01:39 / #440
Szarek what does it mean

Polonius3Threads: 666 Posts: 2,597 Joined: Apr 11, 08 Gender: Male	Oct 1, 09, 16:32 / #441
SZAREK - besides the colour grey, szary in Polish also means drab, ordinary, undistinguished, humdrum, etc. The archaic term szarek once meant a ne'er-do-well or (as we would say today) loser, a ragmuffin or down-and-outer. A similar term szarak means (besides hare) an inpoverished member of the gentry (bosy ale w ostrogach - barefoot but in spurs).

Oct 1, 09, 22:47 / #442

my last name is Jostenski but we can find no record of anyone else having that name in Poland or in the US. We think they messed it up at Ellis Island. Any ideas about other possible spellings or related names?

Polonius3Threads: 666 Posts: 2,597 Joined: Apr 11, 08 Gender: Male	Oct 1, 09, 23:27 / #443
It may have been Justyński which would have been a patronymic nick for the son of someone with the first name of Justyn.

KrystalThreads: 5 Posts: 103 Joined: Sep 17, 09 Gender: Female	Oct 7, 09, 00:37 / #444
I got this from my friend. I think you will like to know more about our last names. http://www.ipgs.us/iwona/surnames/surnamesd.html Have fun and enjoy. I am not sure if this is correct. .....

cinderelochka	Oct 9, 09, 00:05 / #445
I was born in Ukraine to Polish birth parents, and my surname was changed to Jordanova. I havent been lucky in tracing back the name, but wondering what the polish variation of my name would have been if not changed? Jordanów?

Polonius3Threads: 666 Posts: 2,597 Joined: Apr 11, 08 Gender: Male	Oct 9, 09, 04:52 / #446
A mere 18 people in Poland use the Jordanow surname (none spell it Jordanów). Jordanowa sounds feminine. In Poland a woman named Jordan or Jordanow would be familiarly referred to as Jordanowa, but not officially. Incidentally, there are more than 1,100 people surnamed Jordan. Its etymology traces back to the River Jordan in the Holy Land.

cinderelochka	Oct 9, 09, 05:18 / #447
Polonius3: A mere 18 people in Poland use the Jordanow surname (none spell it Jordanów). Jordanowa sounds feminine. In Poland a woman named Jordan or Jordanow would be familiarly referred to as Jordanowa, but not officially. Incidentally, there are more than 1,100 people surnamed Jordan. Its etymology traces back to the River Jordan in the Holy Land. Oh, great thank you. So the Polish equivilent of "jordanova" would most likely be Jordanowa? If so, that would probablly have been my surname at birth before it was changed by my birthmother.

janniepannieThreads: - Posts: 1 Joined: Oct 12, 09 Gender: Female	Oct 12, 09, 21:37 / #448
Have been wondering about the meanings of a few names: Laskowski Gorka (heard it means "little hill") Hoffman ( Hochmann?) Grajewski Thanks!

Polonius3Threads: 666 Posts: 2,597 Joined: Apr 11, 08 Gender: Male	Oct 13, 09, 00:00 / #449
Laskowski - toponymic nick from Lasków. Laskowo, Laskowa et al Gorka (heard it means "little hill") - Indeed Hoffman ( Hochmann?) - German for estate steward, courtier or peasant attached to a grange (nobleman's farm) Hochmann also exists btu could haev resutled from a mispronuncaiton of Hoffmann. In rapdi speech both can sound quite similar. Grajewski - toponymici nick from Grajewo

SoftsongThreads: 5 Posts: 309 Joined: Sep 2, 07 Gender: Female	Oct 13, 09, 04:54 / #450
My great-grandmother was also a Laskowska, but she lived in a hollander village among ethnic Germans. So, I've often wondered if she was Polish, or perhaps a Kashub. Do you know anything of the usual ethnic background of people with the name Laskowski?

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