THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME?

Merged: Surname Help

Hey, so if someone could help me with the origins of two surnames or the meanings of them, it would be much appreciated.
Juskowiak and Aściukiewicz. Thank you.

JUŚKOWIAK: patronymic formed from hypocoristic (pet) forms of such forenames as Justyn or Józef (Justko, Józko)

AŚCIUKIEWICZ:patronymic probably formed from Aścik, a pet form of the mainly Ruthenian forename Astafij.


WALERIA: is a Polish first name, the feminine verison of Walerian. They come from Latin Valerius, originally the designation of a Roman clan.


ŚWIERCZEWSKI: toponymic derived from such localties as Świercze, Świerczewo or Świerczów (from świerk = spruce).

GÓRNICKI: patronymic from górnik (miner) = miner's son; or toponymic from the villages of Górnica or Górniki.

Would you know anything about the name nowobilski ?

NOWOBILSKI: dialectal Ruthenianised or peasant version of Nowobielski -- a toponymic nickname-turned-surname from the village of Nowa Biała in the Nowy Sącz area, highlander country.

Thanks polonius3

Hate to keep bothering you but how about the surname Jahimiak , ive also seen it spelled as jakimiak and once on here as jahemiak

JACHIMIAK is the correct spelling (with the "ch" producing the "h" sound in German Bach and Scottish loch). It is derived from the first name Joachim and is a patronmyic meaning "Joachim's son".

My great-grandfather came from Studzianka in Lublin. His name was Ludwig or Ludwik Dzirko. I was wondering about the origin of his surname. I read that Dzir is the Polish form of Dir or Dyre, who was possibly a Kievan ruler of Scandinavian origin. This would make sense, given that -ko is a Ukrainian surname, but I've heard a lot of conflicting information from my also Polish-American cousins so I have no idea what to think.

DZIRKO: probably from Ruthenianised version of Polish dziurka (little hole) -- дірkа. You are right that -ko is a typical Ukrainian ending.

krutek

Hello, forumers
Is Krutek of Polish origin ? or Polish at all? thanks

Krutek has been recorded in Poland but no-one at present uses it.
It may have come from the Old Polish adjective kruty (strong, harsh), a vestige which has survived in the modern word okrutny (cruel). But names ending in -ek can be of any Slavonic origin. Many surnames function in all or most of those countries, and it's not always easy to determine where they originated.

Thank you!

Little hole sounds a bit vulgar D:

Thank you Polonius3 for the answer & clearification!

Merged: Polish, Irish and now I believe Gypsy

My mothers last name is polish. We have the last name Cichorz. I just out my father is a Meggison. So I was just seeing if anyone was out there that could me.

CICHORZ: this is one of numerous Polish surnames derived from, the adjective "cichy" (quiet, silent). Others include Cichoń, Cichacz, Cichecki, Cichasz, Cichosz, Cichewicz and many more. When dealing with less settled or wandering ethnicities such as Jews and Gipsies (now they're supposed to be called Roma), most any Polish name has been used by them which does not make such a name Jewish or Roma.


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Merged: Polish but found out part German..Biber Jan - grandfather

Trying to find out who my grandfather was,,, jan biber married to karolina drozdek in Ujsoly poland my father Ludwig had a brother Michael also birn in Ujsoly. No one ever talks about grandfather so I want to know who he is and what happened to him.

BIBER: Polonised spelling of German Bieber (beaver).

DROZDEK: diminutive of Drozd (thrush - bird species).

Hey Polonius, I'm pulling together the final pieces of my family tree. Dating back to the 1700s! Anyway, I was wondering if my surname prefix could also indicate where my 'original' ancestor came from? You know, my surname is a patronymic, so my ancestor's name was Bernat. As Bernat is a first name in France, Poland, Hungary, Czech rep, Slovakia and Germany: could my ancestor have been from one of those places?

I think I stated on more than one occasion that Bernat can be any of those and more. Some names are used in various countries in the same or altered form.Sometimes they are modified, respelt, translated, shortened, lengthened, stylised, etc. on a whim or for family, economic or poltical reasons. By itself a name does not necessarily indicate the nationaltiy of its bearer, You can have a full-blooded Polish Schultz or Bardini and a ethnic Mexican named Wojciechowski or Svensen. I will say no more. Full stop.

Is the surname Lesiewicz only found among Polish people or are there variants of the name for other Slavic people like Ukrainians?

And what does the name mean? I know the ending means son of, but it seems like the beginning means forest, is that right?

Names such as Lesiewicz are probably found in all the Slavonic tongues. Yes, it appears to be of patronymic origin meaning "son of Lesio" which is a pet form of Lech or Leszek.

Can anyone help lead me towards useful information? My family comes from Poland (I'm first generation born in US) and I can't find anything pertaining to my last name, APICIONEK or my roots. My dad is from Warsawa and mom is from Przasnysz. If I remember correctly, my dad said his family was from Biała Góra, but I thought he said it was further north than where it is now, probably before the last time Poland's boundaries were divided after the wars.

I'd love to learn more about my history, it's hard getting in touch with my cousins still living in Poland so I'm trying to start it myself.

Dziękuje bardzo!

So if Lech is a Polish name then wouldn't that make Lesiewicz a strictly Polish surname? I ask because my family came from Galicia and I was always told that they were Ukrainians so it would be weird for the name to actually be Polish.

No, becuase in other languages it would not have referred to Lech, but to a forest. In Russian it's les and Lesevich would have been the son of someone nickname Les (forest). In Ukrainian it is lys so that could end up sounding like Lysevych.

Anyone have any ideas of these two surnames??

Rachwal

Zimska or Zemska

RACHWAŁ: archaic form of the first name Rafał (Raphael, Ralph).

ZIEMSKI: from ziemia (earth); can also refer to something provincial eg sejmik ziemski (provincial assembly) and rural as opposed to municipal; something indigenous or local eg sukno ziemskie (home-spun cloth) or landed holdings as in dobra ziemskie.

ZEMSKI: believed to derive from the village of Zambski in Mazowsze.

Merged: Kopacz Nobles

Does anyone know if the Kopacz family from Laczki Brzeskie are desendants from the Noble family Kopacz?

Dunno if there was a noble line in ex-PM Kopacz's family but there wee two szlachta lines amongst the bearers of that surname (meaninn digger, as in ditch-digger). One belogned to the noble clan of Doliwa: (pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doliwa_(herb_szlachecki), the other was an own-name clan named Kopacz :(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopacz_coat_of_arms).

Polonius, Your kind attention to the surname Szumski.

SZUMSKI: root-word szum (the sound made by the howling wind, rushing sea, a babbling brook or the murmumr of voices). Most likely originated as a toponymic nick from places such as Szumsko.

Two szlachta lines amongst its bearers.

Stefan Furman from poland came to the u.s. after the war with wife Augastyniak and 2 sons Henry, and George. i am trying to find if they have a family crest. want to get a tattoo of it.....