Frequency: (160)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Polish: from the dialect word pinka ‘hobnail’, also a type of small pear, perhaps a nickname, or a metonymic occupational name for a grower of these pears.
GIVEN NAME Polish 4%. Stanislaus.
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