Jankowski (Polish pronunciation: [janˈkɔfski]; feminine: Jankowska; plural: Jankowscy) is the 13th most common surname in Poland (69,280 people in 2009).[1] Many village estates were named Jankowa or Jankowice in 13th and 14th century Poland, producing at least twelve unrelated families with this surname. Over thirty place names with 'Jankow' (derived from Jan (John)) as a prefix remain in modern Poland. In most cases, the originator of the surname was a landowner of a reasonably sized estate (tens of hectares as a minimum but could be over one thousand hectares). Landowners often formed their surnames by adding the suffix '-ski', meaning 'of', to the estate name. They generally had considerable prestige and legal rights as the use of '-ski' indicated their adoption into the Polish nobility termed szlachta. To distinguish the different Jankowski szlachta families, they each used an additional identifier signifying their armorial crest or clan, termed 'herb' in Polish (see Boniecki, "Herbarsz Polski").[2]

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Language Masculine Feminine
Polish Jankowski Jankowska
Belarusian
(Romanization)
Янкоўскі
(Yankouski, Jankoŭski)
Янкоўская
(Yankouskaya, Jankoŭskaja)
Bulgarian
(Romanization)
Янковски
(Yankovski, Jankovski)
Янковска
(Yankovska, Jankovska)
Czech/Slovak Jankovský Jankovská
Hungarian Jankovszky, Jankovszki
Latvian Jankovskis
Lithuanian Jankauskas Jankauskienė (married)
Jankauskaitė (unmarried)
Macedonian Јанковски
(Jankovski)
Јанковска
(Jankovska)
Romanian Iancovschi
Russian
(Romanization)
Янковский
(Yankovskiy, Yankovsky, Yankovski,
Iankovskii, Iankovski, Iankovskiy,
Jankovskij)
Янковская
(Yankovskaya, Yankovskaia,
Iankovskaia,
Jankovskaja)
Ukrainian
(Romanization)
Янковський
(Yankovskyi, Yankovskyy, Yankovsky,
Iankovskyi,
Jankovskyj)
Янковська
(Yankovska,
Iankovska,
Jankovska)
Other Jankowsky, Jankouskas, Jankofsky
Yankowski, Yankowsky, Yankofsky

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Jankowski/Jankowska

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References

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  1. ^ Ministry of Interior (Poland). Statystyka najpopularniejszych nazwisk występujących w Polsce in 2009 Archived 28 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine (The most popular surnames in Poland in 2009). Retrieved 19 August 2013.
  2. ^ "Adam Boniecki, Herbarz Polski – Origins of the Jankowski Family". Retrieved 15 October 2015.