Lukasiewicz Last Name: Meaning and Heraldic Roots

Arms linked to Lukaszewski and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Family name meaning

Many Lukasiewicz families will find their roots under Lukaszewski, the form most records use. Its meaning, shared with Lukaszewski, is “The son of Lukasz (light)”.

Before spelling was fixed, Lukaszewski was also written Lukasiewicz. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists. The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Lukasiewicz with 741 bearers, at rank 31,285. That puts it among the top 50,000 US surnames. 109 people born in France between 1891 and 2000 carried the Lukasiewicz name at birth.

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