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However, a married woman usually adopts her husband's name, and the children usually bear the surname of the father. The wife may keep her maiden name (nazwisko panieńskie) or add her husband's surname to hers, thus creating a double-barrelled name (nazwisko złożone). However, if she already has a double-barrelled name, she must leave one of ...
Stępień, also transcribed as Stepien is a Polish surname. The archaic feminine forms are Stępniowa (married) and Stępniówna (unmarried). It is derived from the nickname based on the verb stąpać, "to step" and which literally meant either a peasant who acquired land/farm via marriage (przyżeniony) or "successor"/"heir". [1]
Zawadzki [zaˈvat͡ski] (feminine: Zawadzka, plural: Zawadzcy) is a Polish and Ukrainian surname.It is a toponymic surname derived from one of the numerous locations named Zawada or Zawady.
Wójcik, Wojczik, Wojczyk, Wojszyk (also variants of phonetic spelling: Woicik, Woycik, Woyczik, Woytik, etc. [1]) is one of the oldest Polish surnames, and the fourth most common in Poland (100,064 in 2009).
Bukowski (feminine Bukowska) is a Polish surname.It is composed of buk (Common Slavic for "beech tree") and the suffixes -ow and -ski.In some cases, the name may originate from a toponym, i.e. the name would have been given to or adopted by a person or family from a place named Buków, for example.
Common components of names given at birth can include: Personal name: The given name (or acquired name in some cultures) can precede a family name (as in most European cultures), or it can come after the family name (as in some East Asian cultures and Hungary), or be used without a family name.
Tomala is a Polish-language surname.It is a patronymic surname derived from the given name Tomasz. [1] [2] Germanized forms of the surname include Thomalla and Tomalla.Notable people with this surname include:
Kwiatkowski (Polish pronunciation: [kfʲatˈkɔfskʲi]; feminine: Kwiatkowska [kfʲatˈkɔfska]; plural: Kwiatkowscy [kfʲatˈkɔfst͡sɨ]) is the 15th most common surname in Poland (66,917 people in 2009). [1]