YABLONSKY Origin of surname
YABLONSKY, YABLONSKI, YABLUNSKY, JABLONSKI
Surnames derive from one of many different origins. Sometimes there may be more than one explanation for the same name. Yablonski is a toponymic (derived from a geographic name of a town, city, region or country). Surnames that are based on place names do not always testify to direct origin from that place, but may indicate an indirect relation between the name-bearer or his ancestors and the place, such as birth place, temporary residence, trade, or family-relatives.
Yablonski, in which the Slavic ending "-sky" means "of/from", is associated with the village Yablonka located south of the town of Slonim in the Brest district, Belarus. This family name may have also been derived from Jablonka, the name of various villages in Poland, among them Jablonka in the Konin county or Jablonka in the Poddębice county, both in central Poland.
Yablonsky is documented as a Jewish family name with the American sociologist, criminologist and author, Lewis Yablonsky (1925-2014), an authority on the study of youth gangs, hippies and drug addicts, and with Hinda Hela Iablonski of Lodz, Poland, who perished in the Holocaust.
Surnames derive from one of many different origins. Sometimes there may be more than one explanation for the same name. Yablonski is a toponymic (derived from a geographic name of a town, city, region or country). Surnames that are based on place names do not always testify to direct origin from that place, but may indicate an indirect relation between the name-bearer or his ancestors and the place, such as birth place, temporary residence, trade, or family-relatives.
Yablonski, in which the Slavic ending "-sky" means "of/from", is associated with the village Yablonka located south of the town of Slonim in the Brest district, Belarus. This family name may have also been derived from Jablonka, the name of various villages in Poland, among them Jablonka in the Konin county or Jablonka in the Poddębice county, both in central Poland.
Yablonsky is documented as a Jewish family name with the American sociologist, criminologist and author, Lewis Yablonsky (1925-2014), an authority on the study of youth gangs, hippies and drug addicts, and with Hinda Hela Iablonski of Lodz, Poland, who perished in the Holocaust.