Polonia last name

My last name is Polonia any ideas? All I know that it is a very rare last name, some people say it's Polish and others Italian.

?anyone?

Polonia is Latin name for Poland, as well as Italian.

Oh, so my last name is probley polish back round? All the family I know came from the Dominican Republic.

There can hardly be found such family in Poland. But in early 1800ties Polish troops (so called "Legionists") were send by Napoleon to fight revolt on island. I suppose some could settle there and name "Polonia" was given to them by islanders. Poonia is also Poland in French and Dominicana was a French colony.

Wow, where do you find this all out? Also, Dominican Republic was a Spanish Territory, Haiti was a French Colony not Dominican Republic.

Some little booboo here :)

Right, I'm sorry about confusing. Polonia is Poland also in Spanish.

I remembered about Polish forces there from school history lessons. It is shameful, that Poles who fought in many countries for their freedom were send to island to fight it's freedom down. They were ot happy probably. But they were auxiliary army of Napoleon who promised rebuilt Poland and in fact did it for a while, so they were to do what they done. Polish Wiki includes some information, English seems not.



Yeah :] Of course POLONIA.

I check all the last names/surname websites and none of them have information about the last name 'Polonia'.

I don't know what is a reason. I presented my hypothesis, I think quite accurate.

Well, it does get very annoying when you can't find out anything about your heritage. I waisted money on those websites, and they had no information about my last name, well thanks for your help by the way.

have you seen the House of Names website?

http://www.houseofnames.com/fc.asp?sId=&s=polonia

anyone else?