Frequency: (194)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Polish (Jeliński): habitational name for someone from a place called Jelna in Lithuania, named with Polish jedla, jodła ‘fir tree’.
GIVEN NAMES: German 4%. Johannes, Klaus, Wolf.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
