Polish Initials Deed For Free

Most people have a first name, a middle name, and a surname. Some people has only the first name and a surname. Catholics receive an additional Christian name at the Confirmation.

Most Polish family names end in a suffix, such as ?WICZ, e.g. IWASZKIEWICZ. Many suffixes vary between the masculine or feminine. For example, -SKI, -CKI and -DZKI (male), become -SKA, -CKA, -DZKA (feminine). Therefore, the wife of Piotr MALINOWSKI might have the last name MALINOWSKA.

Polish names are generally structured as [personal name] [FAMILY NAME], e.g. Piotr MALINOWSKI.

Patronymic Polish Surnames These names typically end with a -icz, -wicz, -owicz, -ewicz, or -ycz meaning ?son of.? Andrysiak - Son of Andrzej, the Polish name for Andrew. Filipek - Son of Peter or Philip. Kasprzak - Son of Kacper.

Most Polish family names end in a suffix, such as ?WICZ, e.g. IWASZKIEWICZ. Many suffixes vary between the masculine or feminine. For example, -SKI, -CKI and -DZKI (male), become -SKA, -CKA, -DZKA (feminine). Therefore, the wife of Piotr MALINOWSKI might have the last name MALINOWSKA.

Just as with other places in the world, Poland also has patronymic surnames (surnames based on the name of the bearer's father). Surnames ending in ?owicz,? ?czyk,? ?ewicz,? and ?wicz? are all patronymic Polish surnames.

That suffix -icz or -ycz is how Poles once said "son of," so that "son of Jan" was Janicz or Janycz; "son of Kuba" was Kubicz or Kubycz. But as time went on the Poles were influenced by the tendency of other Slavs to use -owicz or -ewicz instead of plain -icz.

"-witz" in this case is not the German word for wit/joke, but is a German variation on a Slavic suffix "-vich," "-vic," "-wits," "-witz," or "-wicz" (-wicz being a Polish variation) meaning "son of," "child of," "family of," "clan of," etc.

In explaining Polish last names, let's start with the most common ones most people recognize: names ending in ?ski.? The suffix ?ski? essentially means ?from.? When combined with the prefix of a location, it creates a last name denoting where you are from. Note that the female form of ?ski? is ?ska.?

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