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"-witz" in this case is not the German word for wit/joke, but is a German variation on a Slavic suffix "-vich," "-vic," "-wits," "-witz," or "-wicz" (-wicz being a Polish variation) meaning "son of," "child of," "family of," "clan of," etc.

Wojcik, Wojczik, Wojczyk, Wojszyk (also variants of phonetic spelling: Woicik, Woycik, Woyczik, Woytik, etc.) is one of the oldest Polish surnames, and the fourth most common in Poland (100,064 in 2009). Archaic feminine forms are derived by adding suffixes: -owa for married woman and -owna for maiden name.

That suffix -icz or -ycz is how Poles once said "son of," so that "son of Jan" was Janicz or Janycz; "son of Kuba" was Kubicz or Kubycz. But as time went on the Poles were influenced by the tendency of other Slavs to use -owicz or -ewicz instead of plain -icz.

Polish names are generally structured as [personal name] [FAMILY NAME], e.g. Piotr MALINOWSKI.

-ski is a Slavic adjectival suffix, etymologically related to English ?-ish?, and having much the same function, ie forming an adjective from a noun. Polish surnames ending in ?-ski? are thus adjectives, generally indicating the place of origin of the person who first bore that name.

Polish patronyms In fact, the Polish suffix -wicz is of Ruthenian origin (the more ancient Polish form terminates in -wic; you can find it in early modern names of Polish poets: Szymonowic, Klonowic), where it was used for many centuries by the local nobility.

The usage of personal names in Poland is generally governed by civil law, church law, personal taste and family custom. The law requires a given name to indicate the person's gender. Almost all Polish female names end in a vowel -a, and most male names end in a consonant or a vowel other than a.

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Polish names are generally structured as [personal name] [FAMILY NAME], e.g. Piotr MALINOWSKI.

Antoni was the most common name for a newborn child in Poland in the first half of 2022, with over 3.4 thousand registrations. Next were Jan, Aleksander, and Franciszek with around three thousand registrations each.