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

I've already answered Your post in the other topic (about Stary Szor)

People with surname Szarkowski I think still live there in Stary Szor. "Suchotcha" would probably be "Suchocka". And this surname is also known in this area.

Janowitz or Yanowicz was my husbands name it means son of John in Polish

I'am trying to find information about the surname Gunka and just cannot find anything anywhere......it was my greatgrandmother's name and she came from sliesia.

[Moved from]: Lichota

Hi,
Trying to find information on the surname Lichota, my friend's grandfather Louis Lichota came from Katy Poland. Found other Lichotas in the Plock Gubernia / Warszawa Province through the Jewish Records Indexing site. Can anyone help more?

Lois

Not many Lichotas live in the Płock area. The biggest concentrations are in southern Poland. The name's meaning is none too flattering. For more inforamtion please contact research60

[Moved from]: SURNAMES JADCZAK & HODAR

There are a couple of thousand people named Jadczak in Poland. However not a single person spells his name Hodar at present. There are quite a few people surnamed Hodara and even more spelling it Chodara. There is only one Chodar. Please re-check your immigrant ancestor's Old World documents if possibłe.

thanks, my mom said Hodar was changed to avoid WWI draft so that could be it

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If you set google preferences to Polish and type your surname in you will see that there are quite a few living people with that surname in Poland.

Does anyone know the meaning of these surnames - Kasprzak , Fiuk and Szulist ? Thanks

I would like to obtain a coat of arms as a gift for my husband.

His grandfather and grandmother's names were: Frank Dorosinski and
Jadwiga Chavne, both born in Poland. Born in the late 1800's. My husband's father, Steve Dorosinski, was born in 1918.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Sorry, Does anyone know where Semik orignated and/or what it means? Thank you!

Cichoń
What is the origin of this name?

Hallo!I'm searching something about surname Stahowsk-i(a).I'm russian,but I think I have Polish roots...Thanks

For information on the Koladycz surname please contact me.


Molik might have been derived from the verb молиться (Ruthenian for "to pray"), so it could have arisen as a nickname fro someone who prayed a lot, a pious person. The Polish equivalent would be Modlik

I wonder if it migth be connected to the insect known as the praying mantis (modliszka) which copulates with the male mantis and then proceeds to devour him for lunch.

Not only with Sobieski but higher royalty and richer people had a "ski"

Comes from "ryk" which is usually the loud sound made by an animal or violent wind. In English (depending on the animal species) is might be a roar, low, bray, growl, bellow, trumpet (elephant),etc. But the root notwithstanding, as with nearly all

-owski ending surnames it probably started out as a toponymic nickname, ie derived from places called Ryków or Rykowo (rough translations: Roarton, Bellowshire, Growlville, Braymont or something in that general vein.

So some distant ancestor may have been called Andrzej z Rykowa (Andrew of Roarton) which over time adjectivalised into Andrzej Rykowski.

[Moved from]: Majchrzak Family

Our family settled in Maryland - I show no records at Ellis Island - where did they land?

Records stopped in the mid-twenties.

When do you think they landed ?

Records for leaving Poland can be found in Hamburg, Germany......That's the way genealogy works. lol

Did you try different spellings of the family name ?

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Probably used to be "Żak"...

Dąbrowy- is a description for an oak forest.

Dąbrowski would be somebody who lived in or close to oak forest.

Yes, dąbrowa, dąbrowy, dąbrowski, dąbrówka, dąbrowiec, dąbrowica (mala), dąbrowica (duza) etc.

kitka....like a pony tail.... or just tail....

One meaning of kita is a fox's tail

Radek is a diminutive of Radosław - a male name.


Rakaska doesn't mean anything specific.

Toczyński - might come from toczyć - to roll, draw, carry on, bore
Pomorski - region in Poland Pomorze - close to the sea

Kubik - sounds like a diminutive of Kuba (Jacob) or something to do with volume (cubic meter)
Bielski - of white color
Wegrzynowicz - of Hungarian origin (the ending is more easterly; ukrainian/russian/armenian)
Kaliszewski - of Kalisz (Kalisz is one of the the oldest Polish cities)


depending on how you pronounce the "ch" ("sz" or "cz"e) it, it's either:
- little curls (hair)
- little female piglets.
- diminutive of "locha", female pigs.

It does.

or cancer

Some suggestions:

MALYSZ - mały - means small
DUDA - found a meaning of it used by Jewish spies, like a password:
DUDA, jest to hasło - odzew, taki tajny kod:
hasło: Jak sie nazywa - odzew: Duda
hasło: co ma ładne - odzew: uda
hasło: da ci dupy - odzew: da
hasło: a co powie - odzew: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
:)

POREMBIAK (Porębiak)- Rąbie drzewo- as cutting down tree
WINARSKI - wino - wine
MARKIEWICZ - last name from Mark, could be of noble descent

[Moved from]: looking for info on my polish Great great grandfather, Charles Ludwig

I am searching for info on my great great grandfather born 1853 in Gdansk.
name in New Zealand was known as Charles Ludwig. can anyone help in my search.
thankyou.Sue from New Zealand

zygmunt = sigmund. probably it means son of a sigmund or maybe someone from village zygmuntow. its my guess

the name derives from "cat"


Crochet hooks come to mind.