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

'Bez łaski' or inverted to 'łaski bez' or with the augmentative 'łachy bez' (for greater emphasis) is a sarcastic retort along the lines of 'don't do me any favours!'

Is Szczygieł regarded more as a Polish surname or as a Jewish one?

It's Polish and it means "finch"

What about my name, Litwinski, what does that mean?

Litwinski
LITWIŃSKI: patronymic = son of the Lithuanian; the normal adjective for Lithuanian is litewski.

Merged: Meaning of last name?

My last name at birth was Rukat.

RUKAT: possibly from Old Polish verb rukać (to squeal during rutting time said of pigs); also to fart.

Merged: Last name meaning

My last name is Rukat. Im trying to find the meaning and where in poland my family may have come from? Any ideas where to start?

The Mazowsze region is Poland's main Rukat stronghold, notably Greater Warsaw as well as the Ciechanów and Siedlce areas.

Merged: KOZIARSKI ORIGIN ?

does anyone know anything about the surname KOZIARSKI
my grandmothers surname from former Polish controlled Ukraine

Does anyone know the origin of the surname FRENDAK? Are there people in Poland with this family name? Any idea to its meaning? Thank you.

FRENDAK: probably patronymic nick from Frend --- short (pet) form of the German first name Ferdinand. There are a couple people in Poland surnamed Frendak.

KOZIARSKI: patronymic from koziarz (goatherd), hence the goatherd's boy.

Is it a Polish surname?

Any information about the surname Sobolewski
What does it mean?
And is it Polish?

it can be equally of Polish or of Ukrainian origin (then somewhat Polonized as Ukrainian nobility/gentry mostly turned catholic at some point and assumed Polish identities)


it can perfectly be of toponimic type from a place Koziary - this type was typically born by members of nobility

Thanks for the information :) interesting

Do you know anything about the surname Sobolewski ?

Pawluk/Pawlak
Origin?
Meaning?

Pawlak and Pawluk are two distinct surnames of rather different origin (territorially) - though they both mean 'a son of Paul' one is of Polish origin (Pawlak) the other of Ukrainian - Paul is Paweł in Polish and Pawło in Ukrainian - the -uk ending (suffix) is typical of Ukrainian surnames and was not present in Polish onomastics (those Poles who bear names ending in -uk are of eastern extraction (orthodox or Greek-catholic later, Ukrainian or "Ruthenian")

Thank you :)

Looks like my Polish grandfather has a ethnic Ukrainian mother

yes it is possible (mixed marriages were pretty common) - this is exactly the case with me - my father's side family hails from the east (zza Buga), from somewhere around Lwów and one of my great grandfathers (the father of my paternal grandfather) from that branch had a Ukrainian wife - she came with him to western Poland sometime after 1945 (I don't know exactly) and she was still alive when I was like 6 or 7 and - I can even remember her speaking Ukrainian from time to time and she spoke Polish with distinct accent (and it was not just Polish 'kresowy' accent I can tell you)

Very interesting my grandfather was born in Gniezno his father (my great grandfather) was full Polish his surname was Mackowiak (also my surname) My grandfathers mother was also born in Gniezno in 1900 but her family came from the east of Poland. Seems like she was Ukrainian her family names were Pawluk, Sobolewski And Koziarski.

And my grandmother is Belorussian ;p

Sobolewski means precisely - 'of Sobolew' where Sobolew is a place name ( -ew suffix is the counterpart of -ów ending in some areas of Poland and vast areas of the east (the suffix originally was just the marking of genetive (possesion) like English 's suffix does) - Sobolew was most probably somewhere in the east either Ukraine or Belarus - as stated before -ski ending surnames where typically born by nobility (but some 'common' people also in time got to bear this type of surnames as an indication of their place of origin) -

however Jewish families can also bear -ski type of names: they often adopted the surnames of the noble holders of lands in which they used to set up inns or were administrators (there are plenty of Jewish families with surnames Potocki, Czartoryski (i.e. the surnames of grand magnate families) - I personally knew one such person) - one can actually say the bigger the name was in Kresy (eastern part of Rzeczpospolita especiallly Ukraine) the more Jewish families will be there with the surname - (I am not saying there were definitely some Jewish families who adopted the Sobolewski surname because I simply don't know it - with lesser nobility one can say there were no Jewish families to adopt their surname with a great degree of certainty)

Thank you again. I was told that my great grandmothers family were from kresy in eastern Poland and they were of nobility.

Mackowiak coat of arms?

They must've seen you coming...

No mackowiak is not nobile

SOBOLEWSKI: Could be Polish, Russian, Ukrainian or Belarusian. Soból is the Polish word for sable and in Russian it is cоболь. The
-ewski ending suggests toponymic origin, and there are numerous places in Poland, Russia, Ukraine (Sobolewo, Sobolew, etc.) that could have generated it.

KOZIARSKII: Amongst the bearers of the Koziarski surname there were two separate noble lines entitled to use the Ślepowron and Wężyk coats of arms resepctively.

Polonius3 is Koziarski a polish or Ukrainian (polanized) name?

Thank you for the information

most Poles in Ukrainian were speaking Ukrainian, it just tell about her social position not her nationality.

It could be both but I would venture to say it was of Polish origin.

What makes you think that?

Anyone know anything about the surname Kriszczuk?

KRISZCZUK: Haven't we already dealt wiith this name recently? The -uk is a Rutrhenian patornymic indicator, but which language did the basic root come from? One Lithuanian equivalent of Christopher (Polish Krzysztof) is Krisèius. In Ukrainian it is Христофор but it may have been turned into some endearing pet form. The Englihs equivalent of the surname would be Chrstopherson.

Can anyone write Koziarski in Russian for me please

Thanks