Polish Surnames?????

Question

What are some relatively easy-to-pronounce Polish surnames? I'm writing a book and one of the characters is of Polish descent, so any suggestions would help a lot. Thanks!

Answer 1

Bobak i think is a polish surname

Answer 2

"Grzegorz Brzeczyszczykiewicz" is the easiest to pronounce

  

Answer 3

Petronski

Answer 4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Po...

hope this helps!!

Answer 5

Zilosko, Gladis, Kaminski, Dominikowski, Kinski,  

Answer 6

Wronski - pronounced ronski

Hanuszewicz - pronounced Hunoo sevich

Answer 7

Wojcik (VOOY-CHEEK)

Smolarski (SMO-LAHR-SKEE)

Wrobel (VROO-BELL), or Wrobelski

Zalewski (ZAHL-EFF-SKEE)

All R's are rolled.

Answer 8

Kaczenski

Answer 9

Kowalski is good one. It literally means "smith" (as in blacksmith") and it's hard to mispronounce. Names from the Posnan region have a lot of German influence, so they're not as hard as names from East Prussia where Russian was a heavy influence.

Some others you might consider:

Jablonski

Gorzenski

Wlock

Szepanski

Tomaszewski

Kryiger

Czuba (pronounced CHEW ba)

Gwizdala

Luczak

Jasinski

Krzyzak (KREE zak or s**z yak, depending how Americanized they are)

Andrejieski

If you want one with all the extraneous consonants designed to confuse the world, Krzyzaniak (s**+ ZHAN yiak) is a great choice, as are Przybylski (s**+ Bill ski), Wieszechinski (VEE es ta zhin ski) and Ignaszewski.