Konieczny

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For the Polish village, see Konieczna.

Konieczny (masculine), Konieczna (feminine) is a Polish surname. A possible origin is a nickname for a person who lived at the edge of a village, from the archaic meaning of the word konieczny, 'last', 'final'[1][2]

Early records of the surname are dated by 1425. Its bearers were both szlachta (Polish nobility) and commoners. As of 2006, there were over 14,000 persons with this surname in Poland.[2]

Spelling variant: Koneczny, Czech-language variant: Konečný.


Notable people with the surname include:

  1. ^ Dictionary of American Family Names, 2013, Oxford University Press, as cited by ancestry.com
  2. ^ a b Etymologia nazwiska Konieczny, Institute of the Polish Language [pl], Polish Academy of Sciences