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Pages in category "Polish-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 2,005 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Polish names have two main elements: the given name, and the surname. The usage of personal names in Poland is generally governed by civil law , church law, personal taste and family custom. The law requires a given name to indicate the person's gender.
However the most common names include the following: Common names denoting profession. Of these, religious professional names have been particularly widespread, including Hoxha (a Muslim priest, Sunni or Bektashi , with its variant Hoxhaj ), Prifti (a Christian priest, Catholic or Orthodox), Shehu (a Bektashi priest) and Dervishi (Bektashi clergy).
Kaczmarek (Polish pronunciation: [kat͡ʂˈmarɛk]; archaic feminine: Kaczmarkowa, plural Kaczmarkowie) is the 18th most common surname in Poland (62,399 people in 2009) [1] and the second most popular in Greater Poland (24,185) and Lubusz Land (3,121). The name is a diminutive from the Old Polish version of the word karczmarz, [2] meaning ...
A second unspecified person would be called Nowak ("Newman"), with the choice of first name being left to the author's imagination, often also Jan for a man; this surname is unisex. Jan is one of the most popular male first names in Polish, and Kowalski and Nowak are the most popular Polish surnames.
Zieliński (Polish pronunciation: [ʑɛˈlij̃skʲi]; feminine Zielińska, plural Zielińscy) is the eighth most common surname in Poland (91,522 people in 2009), [1] and is also common in other countries in various forms. The first Polish records of the surname date to the 15th century. Without diacritical marks, it is spelled Zielinski.
Wojciechowski (Polish pronunciation: [vɔjt͡ɕɛˈxɔfskʲi]; feminine: Wojciechowska [vɔjt͡ɕɛˈxɔfska] ⓘ; plural Wojciechowscy [vɔjt͡ɕɛˈxɔfst͡sɨ]) is the 16th most common surname in Poland (66,879 people in 2009) [1] and also the third most common in Greater Poland (12,928). It is derived from the Polish first name Wojciech.
Jankowski (Polish pronunciation: [janˈkɔfski]; feminine: Jankowska; plural: Jankowscy) is the 13th most common surname in Poland (69,280 people in 2009). [1] Many village estates were named Jankowa or Jankowice in 13th and 14th century Poland, producing at least twelve unrelated families with this surname.