Frequency: (200)
(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 plewa ‘husk’, ‘shell’, an unflattering nickname for a lightweight, worthless man, or possibly a metonymic occupational name for someone whose job was to winnow grain.
GIVEN NAMES: Polish 14%. Andrzej, Boleslaw, Grzegorz, Jozef, Katarzyna, Kazimierz, Krzysztof, Waclaw, Zdzislaw, Zofia.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
