Szymaszek Family Crest & Name History

Many Szymaszek families will find their roots under Szymczak, the form most records use. Name scholars give the meaning as “Son of Simon”. Records show Szymaszek as one of the forms Szymczak took over time. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. Other spellings include Szymczyk and Szymaniak.

About 270 people in the United States were recorded as Szymaszek in 2010, placing it 72,105 on the national list. That puts it among the top 100,000 US surnames.

Arms linked to Szymczak and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Get the complete Szymaszek report, with a museum-style coat of arms.