ShockTroop
17 Sep 2010
Genealogy / My Polish last name is Bober [7]
i'm curious about my surname, if anyone could shed some light on it.
my last name is Bober, from my dziadek's side, and my babcia's last name is Stasiak. i'm more sure of the Stasiak name, but Bober is very difficult to find, except for the same, "Eastern German and Jewish (from Ukraine and Poland): from Polish bóbr ‘beaver’, Yiddish bober, applied as an ornamental name or as a nickname for someone thought to resemble the animal in some way.", repeated on every site i search.
i am not sure if Bober, in my case, is really yiddish (hope not), because i am a bit unsure of what my babcia's reaction will be, if i ask her. i have, however, asked if it was originally spelled "Bobr", to which she replied, "no, it's Bober, otherwise you'd be called 'Boober', and you wouldn't want that, now would you?".
i'd like to know, because my dziadek died when i was very young, and i learned very little about him. thanks
my dziadzia died when i was very young, and i didn't learn much about him. my babcia's surname is "Stasiak", and my dziadzia's name is Bober. any help?
i've seen, "Eastern German and Jewish (from Ukraine and Poland): from Polish bóbr ‘beaver’, Yiddish bober, applied as an ornamental name or as a nickname for someone thought to resemble the animal in some way.", but so far, that doesn't help. as far as i know, i'm not jewish.
i'm curious about my surname, if anyone could shed some light on it.
my last name is Bober, from my dziadek's side, and my babcia's last name is Stasiak. i'm more sure of the Stasiak name, but Bober is very difficult to find, except for the same, "Eastern German and Jewish (from Ukraine and Poland): from Polish bóbr ‘beaver’, Yiddish bober, applied as an ornamental name or as a nickname for someone thought to resemble the animal in some way.", repeated on every site i search.
i am not sure if Bober, in my case, is really yiddish (hope not), because i am a bit unsure of what my babcia's reaction will be, if i ask her. i have, however, asked if it was originally spelled "Bobr", to which she replied, "no, it's Bober, otherwise you'd be called 'Boober', and you wouldn't want that, now would you?".
i'd like to know, because my dziadek died when i was very young, and i learned very little about him. thanks
my dziadzia died when i was very young, and i didn't learn much about him. my babcia's surname is "Stasiak", and my dziadzia's name is Bober. any help?
i've seen, "Eastern German and Jewish (from Ukraine and Poland): from Polish bóbr ‘beaver’, Yiddish bober, applied as an ornamental name or as a nickname for someone thought to resemble the animal in some way.", but so far, that doesn't help. as far as i know, i'm not jewish.