Zaleski Family History
Zaleski Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Polish Tadeusz, Aleksander, Andrzej, Benedykt, Bronislaw, Czeslaw, Janusz, Jerzy, Karol, Leslaw, Mieczyslaw, Miroslaw.
Polish: topographic name for someone who lived ‘on the other side of the forest’, from za ‘beyond’ + las ‘forest’, with the addition of the surname suffix -ski.
Polish and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name for someone from any of several places called Zalesie (derived from the same Polish words za and las as 1 above).
Polish (Załęski): topographic name for someone who lived ‘on the other side of the water meadow’, from za ‘beyond’ + łęg ‘water meadow’, with the addition of the surname suffix -ski.
Americanized form of Polish Zalewski .
In some cases this is probably also an Americanized form of Ukrainian and Belorussian Zalessky, a cognate of 1 above. Compare Zalesky and Salesky .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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