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

Szymanski

SZYMAŃSKI - inhabitant of Szymany (Simonsville)


GROBORZ – dialectic (for instance Silesian, Tatra Highlander) pronunciation and spelling of grabarz (grave-digger)


GUTT – from German word meaning farmstead, holding, property.


RUTTKOWSKY – phonetic respelling of Rutkowski in a way (-sky) that makes it look to be of Russian, Czech or Jewish origin. Rutkoski would have been a better alternative to retain its Polish flavour (the F is barely audible and can be omitted). Etymology: inhabitant of Rutkowo or Rutków (Rueville).


WODZIŃSKI: Probably a toponymic nick from a locality called Wodzina or Wodzin (Leaderton, Chieftainville).

hello my name last name is walas is this polish?

Both the Walas (pronounced: VAH-lahss) and Walaś (VAH-lahsh) spellings exist in Poland. The name is derived from a first name such as Walerian or Walenty and can mean "little Val" (diminutive) or Valson (patronymic nick).

What about Petrenchi / Petrencki?

thank you!

No-one in Poland is surnamed Petrencki at present. Petrenchi looks to be the Italian phonetic respelling except correctly it should read Petrenschi.

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Thank you very much ! I was so sure that the name's origin was polish ....now I am rather cofused..I am romanian so ...should I believe that this is a perfectly romanian name ?

could it have originally been Petryński? Such a name exists in Poland. How migth it be phonetically respelt in Romanian?
In general, how are -ski ending surnames rendered in Romanian? Do they get the -escu ending?.

Hello, my maiden name was Majkut in Polish. Can you tell me the meaning of Majkut, which is Maykut in English. Thank you. Just found this web site and I will visit more.

Thank you Irene

Variant of mankut, means left-handed

Any information about Sokolnicki?

SOKOLNICKI - falconer's son (patronymic nick) or inhabitant of Sokolniki (toponymic nick). The locality might translate as Falconers or Falconerville.

what or where did the last name of mine (yanski) come from or was it part or combination with another name john

It's short of anything, such as Pijański, Świętojański, Dupajański

Jański exists as a separate surname (Johnson?) but also joins other roots as in Świętojański (St John's). Incidentally Jan is the most prolific Polish Chrsitian name in terms of derivative surnames which include: Janik, Janiak, Janowski, Jankowski, Jankowiak, Janosiak, Jankiewicz, Jankowicz, Janda, Janowiak, Jańczak, Janach, Janeczko, Janic, Janicki, Janiuk, Janoszek and (from its hypocoristic form Jaś) -- Jasiak, Jasik, Jasikiewicz, Jasiulewicz, Jasiuk Jasiecki, Jaśko, Jasiewicz, Jaśkowiak and more......

surname Pazder

I'm wondering if anyone has any information on the surname Pazder. Not sure if it is Polish or Russian. Any help in the matter would be greatly appreciated.

About 50 people in Poland sign thesmelves Pazder. It appears to be the Ukrainian equivalent of the Polish word paździerz (wood chips, scraps) pressed together to form płyta paździerzowa (chipboard).

Hello!
I know a Polish person with the surname 'Wołosz'. Can somebody tell me what this name may mean?
Thank you!

Wołosz, Wołoch and derivatives are traceable to the Wallachians, Romanian shepherds living on the opposite side of the Carpathian Mountains.

My last name is Szymanski are there any others??

** The -ska ending is feminine and would be found in every document (birth/baptismal, marriage or death certificate, identity paper, passport, name roster, etc. of a female whose father or husband had a ski-ending name.

The -sky ending in America is associated with Czech, Slovak, Russian and Jewish surnames. Polish is also -ski. Of course, if a Pole wants to change his -ski name to -sky, legally he is free to do so.

** Szymański originated as a toponmyic nickname for someone from Szymany (Simonville).

Wierzchowski??

Wierzch - the top or on top of something
jazda wierzchem - horseback riding

.. a prissy girl.

I've been searching for years and can't find a meaning for my last name, which is, KNEZINEK. Any help would be wonderful =)

Thanks.

One option is that it comes from Knieź. And this comes from the word Kniaz which is an Ukrianian or Lithuanian prince

** Nearly all Polish surnames ending in -owski are of toponymic origin. Wierczhowksi was derived from one of seeveral localities in Poland called Wierzchy, Wierzchowo, Wierzchów, maybe Wierzchowice, although the latter should have produced Wierzchowicki.

As for possible meanigns - it could have been derived from wierzchowiec (mount, riding horse) or wierzchołek (mountain top, peak, summit).


** Knezinek (Кнезінек) looks like the Ukrainian diminutive meaning princeling (little prince).

majierski

My husband last name is Marchlewski and i was thinking about changing my last name to his but im not sure, can you tell me what it means?

MAJERSKI: The Majierski spelling you gave is impossible in Polish, but the Majerski surname is known and used in Poland. Its basic root could have been either the German word “Maier” (estate steward or dairy farmer) or the Hebrew name Meir (meaning brightness, light, illumination). Regardless of its origin, however, Poles would have added the adjectival -ski ending for patronymic purposes to describe someone as “the steward’s or dairy farmer’s son” of “Meir’s boy”.


MARCHLEWSKI: Its basic root is Marchal or Marchel, a dialectic variant of the first name Melchior (incidentally the name of one of the biblical Three Wisemen, the remaining two being Kasper and Baltazar).

The -ski ending i adjectival and more often than not indicates a surname's toponymic (place-name-derived) origin. There is a village called Marchelówka in NW Poland's Podlasie region. People from outlying villages could have applied the Marchlewski, Marchlowski or Marchelowski nickname to someone who hailed from there. But remember - this may have occurred centuries ago. To later generations it became just another name.