Podsiadlo
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Podsiadlo
Frequency: (105)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Polish: nickname from Polish podsiadać ‘to supersede’ or ‘usurp’, applied to someone who had engineered the dismissal of someone else from a post, in order to take his place.
GIVEN NAMES: Polish 12%. Andrzej, Feliks, Halina, Janina, Slawomir.
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