DominicB
22 May 2017
Genealogy / Kuzdeba: Is My Last Name Polish? [14]
It's originally a Ukrainian name, usually transliterated as Kuzhdeba in English and Kużdeba in Polish. There are 23 people with that name currently living in Poland, and their pattern of settlement highly suggests that they were relocated from what is now the Ukraine after WWII. Your grandmother may have considered herself ethnically Polish rather than Ukrainian, especially if she was Roman Catholic Latin Rite. There wasn't as sharp a line dividing Polish from Ukrainian ethnicity at the time, and there are plenty of cases of two siblings, one considering themself Polish, and the other Ukrainian.
It's originally a Ukrainian name, usually transliterated as Kuzhdeba in English and Kużdeba in Polish. There are 23 people with that name currently living in Poland, and their pattern of settlement highly suggests that they were relocated from what is now the Ukraine after WWII. Your grandmother may have considered herself ethnically Polish rather than Ukrainian, especially if she was Roman Catholic Latin Rite. There wasn't as sharp a line dividing Polish from Ukrainian ethnicity at the time, and there are plenty of cases of two siblings, one considering themself Polish, and the other Ukrainian.