KRANKOWSKI Family Members

​​​Page added 1 January 2022.
Meaning of… (See https://www.familysearch.org/en/surname): 
KRANKOWSKI:
  • Polish: habitational name for someone from places called Franki (in Łomża and Płock voivodeships), Frankowo, or Frankowa, so named from the personal names Franek or Franko, derivatives of the personal name Franciszek, a vernacular form of Latin Franciscus (see Francis).
 
FRANCIS:
  • English: from the personal name Francis (Old French form Franceis, Latin Franciscus, Italian Francisco). This was originally an ethnic name meaning ‘Frank’ and hence ‘Frenchman’. The personal name owed much of its popularity during the Middle Ages to the fame of St. Francis of Assisi (1181–1226), whose baptismal name was actually Giovanni but who was nicknamed Francisco because his father was absent in France at the time of his birth. As an American family name this has absorbed cognates from several other European languages (for forms, see Hanks and Hodges 1988).
  • Jewish (American): an Americanization of one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames, or an adoption of the non-Jewish surname.

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