Jablonski
A Polish surname meaning “from the place of apple trees” or “of Jablon.”
The #4,743 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 41,337 Americans shares it.
Etymology
Jablonski is a Polish surname built from place-name material based on the Slavic word for “apple tree” or “apple orchard” (Polish jabłoń/jabłon-). The suffix -ski originally meant “of” or “from” a place, so the name most often meant someone from a place called Jablon, Jabłon, or a similar “apple-tree” locality. In origin it is a habitational surname rather than a direct nickname.
History
Names in -ski became especially common among the Polish gentry and later spread much more widely across social classes. As with many Polish surnames, the form can reflect either a specific village name or a more general topographic origin. The surname is also found in diaspora communities in North America and elsewhere, often preserved in the anglicized spelling Jablonski.
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Fun fact
The spelling without the Polish diacritic marks is very common outside Poland, but the traditional Polish form is Jabłoński.
From the historical record
“Coptic v-ovpo. See also Tregelles's Gesenius, referring to Josephus, Antiq. viii. 6, sec. 2 ; Jablonski Opusc. ed. te Water, i. 374 ; Scholz, Gram. ^Egypt. p. 12, 14 ; Kose- garten, De Prisca -ZEgyptiorum Literature,, p. 17. PHELIM. The Irish pronunciation of the name Feidh- lim or Feidhlimidh, which Cormac…”
— Praenomina; or, the etymology of the principal Christian names of Great Britain and Ireland