Kowalczyk is the fifth most common surname in Poland. The name comes from the word "blacksmith".
Jankowski is the 13th most common surname in Poland. Many village estates were named Jankowa or Jankowice in 13th and 14th century Poland, producing at least twelve unrelated families with this surname. Over thirty place names with 'Jankow' as a prefix remain in modern Poland. In most cases, the originator of the surname was a landowner of a reasonably sized estate. Landowners often formed their surnames by adding the suffix '-ski', meaning 'of', to the estate name. They generally had considerable prestige and legal rights as the use of '-ski' indicated their adoption into the Polish nobility termed szlachta. To distinguish the different Jankowski szlachta families, they each used an additional identifier signifying their armorial crest or clan, termed 'herb' in Polish.
Maier is a surname of German origin.
Schaefer is an alternative spelling and cognate for the German word schäfer, meaning 'shepherd', which itself descends from the Old High German scāphare. Variants "Shaefer", "Schäfer", the additional alternative spelling "Schäffer", and the anglicised forms "Schaeffer", "Schaffer", "Shaffer", "Shafer", and "Schafer" are all common surnames.
John is a surname which, like the given name John, is derived from the Hebrew name יוֹחָנָן, Yôḥanan, meaning "Graced by Yahweh".
Schutte is a Dutch occupational surname derived from schutter, meaning "archer". The North German form of the name is Schütte or Schuette. People with these names include:
Mehl is a German and Norwegian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Bednář is a Czech surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Schmid is a German surname that is a cognate of "Smith", an occupational surname for a blacksmith. The spelling is more common in Switzerland than Schmidt or Schmitt. Notable people with the surname include:
Kovačević, Kovačevič or Kovačovič, is a Slavic surname meaning "[black]smith's son". The surname is derived from Kovač, which means "[black]smith", and is the equivalent of English Smithson.
Paulus is a Latin surname meaning "small" or "humble".
Grosser or Großer is the masculine nominative singular form of the German adjective "gross", meaning "big", "great", "large", "tall", and the like. It is part of many placenames, especially of mountains. It is also a surname. People with that surname include:
Kowalewski is a Polish surname. It may refer to:
Moeller and Möller are closely related surnames of German origin.
Minge is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Sutor is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Stolarz or Stolorz is a Polish surname. It is a surname derived from the occupation of stolarz, a joiner, literally "table-maker". The surname may refer to:
Klingbeil is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Pavkov is a surname. Its Czech female form is Pávková. Notable people with the surname include:
Böhl is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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