Meet the Kowalskis, Nowaks, Mickiewiczs and Lewandowskis – and find out out how these names came to be the most popular, symbolic, typical and also the strangest Polish surnames. Every name – and ...

he announced, gawping at my name, Caroline ... more than one occasion my surname has automatically pigeon-holed me as ‘other’, despite supposedly not looking Polish at all (what does a Polish ...