Slawinski / Slawinska - where did the last name Slawinski originate from? Slowinska

My last name is Slawinski and there is a co-worker whose last name is Stawinski. I told him our ancestors were probably from the same area in Poland and that possibly there may be a relation - in Polish Slawinski has the line through the l to make the "W" sound. I told my co-worker possbily when his relatives cam here the line through the L was mistaken as a t.

That could be true, they could both come from the same name. Although I've heard both versions as well.
Sławiński could originate from the word "Sławny" which means "famous",
while Stawiński could come from the word "Staw" which is a "pond".

Maybe someone else would know more.

Sep 3 2006, 18:32 - Topic attached on merging:
Looking for Slawinski (Kielce area)

My fathers name was Boleslaw Slawinski - he was born in 1916 in Kielce. In 1939 he became a Polish POW and in 1953 he came to the United States after living in Germany and France.

My father kept in touch with his survivng mother (died in the late 1960's) and brothers up until the early 1970's. His mother (my grandmother) name was Antonina. My grandfather died when my father was a young boy. One of his brothers names was Josef.

Thank you Krysia fo rthe information. During the war my father was a Polish POW. My mother and father met in a labor camp in ludwigshafen in germany and after the war they were in DP Camp Wildfleckin. They came to the US in 1953. When I see the last name Slawinski or Stawinski I ofetn wonder if we are related

Wasn that the last name of the secretary that bill clinton cheated on his wife with? probably from her fam.

That was Lewinsky - I highly doubt it

Merged: Slawinska? Slavinska? Slovinska?

Been searching for any info I can find on my family - all Polish from different parts. Great Grandmother born in or near Warsaw and father was a landowner. My aunt thinks the last name was spelled Slavinska (probably americanized) and great-gran went to states when she was 14 with her aunt and uncle through Ellis Island. But don't know which aunt/uncle. She was born 1897. Here's one of my aunt's responses -- I know some of the spelling is off but is it possible to tell area based on food?

Jenny, my mom tried everthing she could twice to find Busha's family thru the Red Cross. All the churches were demolished during the war and that is where records were kept so they had nothing to go on. I don't even know for sure the name of the town she came from. I heard many stories during my lifetime but not consistent. I am not sure how to spell Slavinska maybe you know of different spellings living in that country. Also I find that many areas serve different kinds of food. So you can check where Chiiinena (spelling) is popular and when she made beet soup it was not with sour cream it was sweet sour with dill. and she made pork shoulder with potato dumplings and gravy, she made punchkies round by tablespoon and no jelly dropped in hot oil. these are some of the things I remember her cooking for us. I don't want to disolution you but mom tried very hard with Busha still alive to answer questions and they could find nothing.

Sławiński and Słowiński are two different names. Sławiński would have emerged as a toponymic ncik for someone form Sławin or Sławiny. Słowiński would have descirbed a Slovincian (Słowiniec), a member of a now extinct Pomeranian subgroup akin to the Kashubians.

The foods you mentioned are known throughout the Polish realm and cannot be used to track down your family's ancestral nest.
There are some 8,000 Słowińskis in Poland and nearly as many (7,800) Sławińskis.

Bummer! :) I don't even know the true spelling because the Ellis Island records suggest probably about 50 different forms of the name.... Oh well... it was worth a try!

There is no letter "v" in Polish, so Slavinski and Slovinski (the -ska ending is feminine) could not have been the original Polish spelling. Sometimes Polish immigrants changed the "w" to a "v" help the Anglos pronounce it correctly. However Czech and Slovak names as well as transilterated Cyrillic ones do have the ltter "v", eg Novak, Stravinsky, etc.

Have you looked at the original ship's manifest. Spellings aren't always correct when typed. What was her first name?

wot is the last adres wher they liv in poland .May naym is Marek S£awinski end im living 80 km from Warszawa to nord -west .small vilich name Kostki.woj Mazowieckie ,woth is yor fameli 1st end 2kond name?end whaer day liv in Poland?.may mayl is - markmiroslaw@yahoo

polish -S£awinski or S£awinska or S£owinska or S£owinski
the food you tooking about is coming from( Podlasie .)

My greatgrandmother was Jozefa S£awinska, born in the Ligowo parish of Mazovia in 1866. She married Marcin Wisniewski in 1891 in T£uchowo and they emigrated to New Jersey in 1896. I have collected information on her family and have a photo of Jozefa and Marcin at:

jwdupon.net/genealogy/Wisniewski.html