Polish Initials Settlement For Free

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.

"-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.

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).

Polish last names are also derived from places, nicknames, and occupations. Names derived from places usually ended in -ski, meaning "of," and for a long time, they were reserved for nobility.

Now onto my answer. The endings ?ski and ?ska have absolutely nothing to do with one's marital status, but with the gender of the person. So, a ?ski IN POLAND is always a male, and a ?ska ? a female.

The answer is simple: Polish adjectives have different forms for the genders. Surnames ending in -ski are regarded as adjectives, so they, too, reflect gender with different endings. Thus Janowski is the nominative form for a male; Janowska is the same form for a female.

Two Polish groups arrived from Canada shortly before 1860 and settled in Wisconsin and Michigan. The Poles who came after the Civil War went primarily to the Middle Atlantic and Midwest states, especially to New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska and Missouri.