Bocianowski Family Crest & Name History

Your Bocianowski ancestor may well appear as Bocian in earlier records. Name scholars give the meaning as “Stork”.

• Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists.
• Bocianowski adds -owski to the root of Bocian, a common way of forming related surnames.

Bocianowski coat of arms

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