Kwiatkowski
Kwiatkowski (Polish pronunciation: [kfʲatˈkɔfskʲi]; feminine: Kwiatkowska [kfʲatˈkɔfska]; plural: Kwiatkowscy [kfʲatˈkɔfst͡sɨ]) is the 15th most common surname in Poland (66,917 people in 2009).[1] It comes from place names such as Kwiatków, Kwiatkowo, or Kwiatkowice, which are derived from the Polish word kwiatek ("flower").[2] Associated with this surname are the Polish noble families bearing the seals of Drogomir, Gryf, Jastrzębiec, Korab, Nałęcz, Nowina, Rola, Strzemię, Wieruszowa, or Własne.
Related surnames
Language | Masculine | Feminine |
---|---|---|
Polish | Kwiatkowski | Kwiatkowska |
Russian (Romanization) | Квятковский (Kvyatkovsky, Kvyatkovskiy, Kviatkovsky, Kviatkovski) | Квятковская (Kvyatkovskaya, Kviatkovskaia) |
Ukrainian (Romanization) | Квятковський (Kvyatkovskyi, Kvyatkovskyy, Kviatkovskyi) | Квятковська (Kvyatkovska, Kviatkovska) |
Notable people
- Barbara Kwiatkowska-Lass (1940–1995), Polish actress
- Bronisław Kwiatkowski, Polish military commander
- Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski, Polish politician and economist
- Heinz Kwiatkowski, German football goalkeeper
- Henryk de Kwiatkowski, Polish-born aeronautical engineer, businessman and horse breeder
- Irena Kwiatkowska (1912–2011), Polish actress
- Joel Kwiatkowski, Canadian ice hockey player
- Karen Kwiatkowski, U.S. Air Force officer, writer, former candidate for Congress
- Krzysztof Kwiatkowski, Polish politician
- Ladimir Kwiatkowski, children's television host
- Łukasz Kwiatkowski, Polish cyclist
- Marta Kwiatkowska, Polish-British computer scientist
- Michał Kwiatkowski, Polish singer known as Michal in France
- Michał Kwiatkowski, Polish cyclist
- Mickey Kwiatkowski, American football coach
- Oskar Kwiatkowski, Polish snowboarder
- Paloma Kwiatkowski, Canadian actress
- Thai-Son Kwiatkowski, American tennis player
- Teofil Kwiatkowski, Polish painter
- Tonia Kwiatkowski, U.S. skater
- Zbigniew Kwiatkowski, Polish handballer
- Aleksandr Kvyatkovsky (1853–1880), Russian revolutionary
- Andriy Kviatkovskyi (born 1990), Ukrainian freestyle wrestler
See also
- Jonathan Kwitny (1941–1998), a Jewish American writer and investigative journalist
- Gryf coat of arms (Kwiatkowski, Kwiatkowicz, Kwiatkiewicz, Kwieciński)
- Kwiatków (disambiguation)
- Kwiatkowice (disambiguation)
- Květná
- Kwietno
References
- ↑ "Statystyka najpopularniejszych nazwisk występujących w Polsce in 2009" [The most popular surnames in Poland in 2009] (PDF) (in Polish). Ministry of Interior (Poland). Archived from the original (PDF) on September 28, 2013. Retrieved August 19, 2013.
- ↑ "Kwiatkowski". ancestry.com.
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