Frequency: (222)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Polish: habitational name for someone from a place called Chojnowo or Chojnów, from choina ‘fir tree’, in Ciechanów, Łomża and Ostrołęka voivodeships.
GIVEN NAMES: Polish 11%. Andrzej, Kazimierz, Lech, Lucjan, Witold, Zbigniew.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
