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Originally Posted by joefromchicago
POLISH-AMERICAN NAMES (nameset 15)
3.2% of American population
There were a fair number of spelling errors that needed to be corrected in this database - not surprising, perhaps, given how daunting Polish spelling can be. All diacritical marks were removed. Some nasalized vowels received an -m (e.g. Dąbrowski was changed to Dambrowski). Russian/Ukrainian names ending in -sky were deleted, as were feminine (-ska) versions of names ending in -ski. Some names were omitted to avoid repetition with the Jewish nameset.
Sources that I used include:
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The city where I grew up, Warren, Michigan, is (or was) so Polish that I knew people with most of those top ranked last names behind that link, and several down the list as well. Going to a Catholic school helped. Going down the list brought back a lot of memories of kids I hadn't thought of in 40 or more years.