Wiśniewski is the third most common surname in Poland. It is a toponymic surname derived from any of the locations named Wiśniewa, Wiśniewo, Wiśniowa, Wiśniew. It is related to the following surnames in other languages:
Lewandowski is a Polish-language surname. In other languages it may be transliterated as Lewandowsky, Levandovski, Levandovsky, Levandovskyy, Levandoski, Levandovskiy.
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.
Wacław is a Polish masculine given name. It is a borrowing of Czech: Václav, Latinized as Wenceslaus.
Krawczyk is the 17th most common surname in Poland. Tailor's Son is an English translation of the name. The Polish root krawiec translates as tailor and the suffix czyk as son of.
Krasiński is a surname of Polish, or generally Slavic, origin.
Grabowski is a Polish surname with forms in various languages. The Belarusian and Ukrainian variants are generally transcribed beginning with an 'h' but may also be written with a 'g'. It is also found in German surnames from the Silesia region of old Prussia.
Zagórski is a Polish surname. At the beginning of the 1990s there were approximately 7040 people in Poland with this surname.
Zakrzewski is a Polish surname. At the beginning of the 1990s there were approximately 26,210 people in Poland with this surname.
Wacław Michał Zaleski, pseudonym Wacław from Olesko, was a Polish nobleman, poet, writer, researcher of folklore, theatre critic, political activist, and governor of Galicia (1848). Galician landowner and deputy to the Parliament.
Maciejowski (feminine:Maciejowska) is a Polish surname derived from any of geographical locations derived from the given name Macjej.
Lech is a Polish masculine given name. Lech was the name of the legendary founder of Poland. Lech also appears as a surname, with 14,289 people having the name in Poland.
Stanisławski is a Polish locational surname, which originally meant a person from a place in Poland called Stanisław, Stanisławów, or Stanisławice, all of which in turn derive from the given name Stanisław.
Michalski is a Polish surname. It may refer to:
Morawski is a Polish surname. It is related to a number of surnames in other languages.
Górski is a Polish-language surname which belongs to several noble Polish families. Variants found in other countries include Gorski, Gorsky, Gurski, Gursky.
Kołakowski is a Polish-language surname. Emigrants with this surname may have also been recorded as Kolakoski, Kolakosky, Kollakowski, Kolackovsky, Kolakowsky, Colakovski, Kollakowsky and Cholakovski. When transliterated via Russian, the surname may have the forms Kolakovsky, Kolakovski.
Szeliga is a Polish-language surname. It has archaic feminine forms: Szeligowa for married women and Szeliżanka for unmarried. It is a family name of Polish nobility bearing the Szeliga coat of arms.
