Slavic
Polish family heritage
The Slavic lands — Polish, Czech, Ukrainian, Russian and the South Slavs.
Clan Rising is the living atlas of European family heritage, built one people at a time. Polish heritage is now on the map — the meaning of your surname, the homeland it came from, and the stories that travelled with it into the diaspora.
On the map
Where Polish heritage sits in Europe
This is the homeland on the modern map. The names below already file here; the heritage regions that subdivide it, and the deeper map, are coming next.
Polish names already in the atlas
- NowakThe newcomer — the commonest name in Poland.
- KowalskiOf the smith — Poland's Smith, in the gentry's -ski.
- WiśniewskiOf the cherry-village — a name 'of' the land.
- WójcikThe headman's boy — son of the village bailiff.
- KowalczykThe smith's apprentice — Kowalski's young cousin.
- KamińskiOf the stone-place — a name from rocky ground.
- LewandowskiOf Lewandów — and the great No. 9.
- ZielińskiOf the green place — a name from the meadows.
- SzymańskiOf Szymon's place — the Polish Simon, landed.
- WoźniakThe beadle's man — usher, or carter.
- DąbrowskiOf the oak-grove — and the national anthem.
- KozłowskiOf the goat-village — a name from the herds.
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