Toponymic surnames

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Danziger, being related to Danzig (Gdańsk, Poland) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Wróblewski (feminine Wróblewska) is a Polish toponymic surname, which originally meant a person from one of several places called Wróblew or Wróblewo in Poland, with these villages in turn named for the Polish word wróbel ("sparrow"). Alternative spellings abroad include Wroblewski and Wroblewsky. Russian-language transliteration: Vrublevsky, Latvian: Vrubļevskis, Lithuanian: Vrublevskis.

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Elsner is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Verhaeghe may refer to:

Vodička (feminine Vodičková) is a Czech and Slovak surname, which is a diminutive of the Czech word voda ("water"), and thus a topographic name for a person who lived by water. The name may refer to:

Czyżewski (; feminine: Czyżewska; plural: Czyżewscy) is a Polish toponymic surname associated with the place names such as Czyżew, Czyżewo, etc., derived from the Polish word czyż, meaning 'siskin'. In rare occasions a man could have the feminine form of the sername and vice versa. Similar surnames are Chyzheuski or Čyžeŭski (from ), Chyzhevskyi/Chyzhevskyy (from ), and Chizhevsky/Chizhevski (from ). The surname may refer to:

Ciesielski (; feminine: Ciesielska) is a Polish-language surname derived from any of locations named Cieśle and possibly from the nickname or surname Cieśla (literally "carpenter"). Notable people with this surname include: (Andrzej Ciesielski (second half of the 16th century), Polish-Lithuanian political writer, economist and noble politician Jerzy Ciesielski (1929–1970), Polish Roman Catholic figure Krzysztof Ciesielski, Polish road cyclist Maria Ciesielska, Polish medical historian Maria Ciesielska (actress) (born 1934), Polish actress Sævar Ciesielski, Icelander convicted in the Guðmund

Kulchytskyi (, BGN/PCGN 1965 Kul’chyts’kyy) is a Ukrainian toponymic surname meaning "someone from Kulchytsi". Kulchitsky () is a Russian version, Kulczycki is a Polish version Kulchytski is Belarusian.

Marcinkowski (feminine Marcinkowska) is a Polish toponymic surname, denoting a person from the village of Marcinkowo or Marcinkowice. Notable people include:

Oravec (Czech and Slovak feminine: Oravcová) is a surname. It means native of Orava in Czech and Slovak. Notable people with the surname include:

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Zaremba is a surname of Polish-language origin. Eventually derived from the verb zarąbać ("to chop"), it may be an occupational surname for a woodcutter or a habitational name from places such as Zaręby. The Polish word zaremba means the 'area cleaned of vegetation'. Archaic feminine forms (now used only colloquially): Zarembina (after the husband) and Zarembianka (after the father). Notable people with the name include: