Frequency: (1198)
(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 for someone thought to resemble a bat, from Polish dialect wieczorek ‘bat’, a diminutive of wieczór ‘evening’.
GIVEN NAMES: Polish 8%. Czeslaw (2), Danuta (2), Jerzy (2), Miroslaw (2), Andrzej, Boleslaw, Darek, Eugeniusz, Henryk, Ignacy, Irena.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
