Surnames/tags: Ligocki Ligocka Ligowski


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Origin
Ligocki
Ligocki (feminine Ligocka) is a Polish surname. The "Dictionary of American Family Names" describes the origin as:
Habitational name for someone from any of numerous places in Poland called Ligota, denoting a settlement that was exempt from paying tribute.[1]
Wikipedia lists 8 villages in Poland named Ligota and many others which have compound names including Ligota.
Ligowski
Ligowski (feminine Ligowska) is a similar Polish surname which seems to be a habitational name for someone from Ligowo a village on the border of Masovian & Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeships.
I've noticed that some people living in Płonkowo parish around 1800 are listed with surnames both Ligowski and Ligocki in different documents. So it is possible that some Ligockis may have been from families that were originally Ligowski (especially in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship where it seems there were no villages named Ligota).
Legocki
Legocki and Legoski are variant spellings seen for example in Sheridan, Wyoming.
Lines
Forefather | Year Born | Location in Poland | # Ligocki descendants | # Descendants | WikiTree Members |
Mateusz Ligocki | 1786 | Zlotowo, Schubin and Plonkowo, Inowrazlaw, Prussian Poland | 177 | 367 | Shawn Ligocki |
August Ligocki | 1826 | Exin, Schubin, Prussian Poland | 51 | 72 | Richard Nowakowski |
Mikołaj Ligocki | 1760 | Myślibórz, Konin (later Prussian & Russian Partition) | 51 | 51 | |
Joseph Ligocki | 1860 | Cieszyn, Austrian Poland | 16 | 20 | |
Jan Ligocki | 1792 | Dzierzbin, Kalisz (later Prussian & Russian Partition) | 12 | 12 | |
Andrew Ligocki | 1850 | ? | 11 | 18 | Chris Bare |
Franciszek Ligocki | 1843 | Tuczno, Inowrazlaw, Prussian Poland | 9 | 9 | |
Walenty Ligocki | 1785 | Liebensee, Inowrazlaw, Prussian Poland | 8 | 12 | |
Kazmierz Stephan Ligocki | 1881 | Labosze, Russian Poland(?) | 7 | 8 | |
Michael Ligocki | 1881 | Smaszew(?), Turek, Russian Poland | 6 | 6 | |
Franciszek Ligocki | 1791 | Bartschin, Schubin and Plonkowo, Inowrazlaw (Prussian Partition) | 5 | 5 |
Stragglers:
The number of descendants was calculated using the "Descendants" Tree App CSV download. Last updated 18 Dec 2024.
Prevalence
In Poland
The Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (Directory of Surnames in Current Use in Poland) collected 93% of all surnames of people in Poland in 1990.
Name | Count | Per 100k pop. | # Voivodeships | # Voivodeships (w/ count ≥ 10) |
Ligocki/a | 1776 | 4.66 | 38 | 26 |
Ligowski/a | 195 | 0.51 | 20 | 6 |
Legocki/a | 97 | 0.25 | 12 | 3 |
The top few voivodeships:
Voivodeship | # Ligocki | Per 100k pop. | # Ligowski | Per 100k pop. |
Konin | 249 | 51.8 | 0 | |
Bielsko-Biała | 329 | 35.5 | 0 | |
Bydgoszcz | 105 | 9.2 | 31 | 2.7 |
Poznan | 127 | 9.3 | 5 | 0.4 |
Zielona Góra | 64 | 9.4 | 2 | 0.3 |
Włocławek | 3 | 0.7 | 32 | 7.4 |
Płock | 4 | 0.8 | 33 | 6.3 |
Katowice | 196 | 5.0 | 5 | 0.1 |
Warsaw | 60 | 2.5 | 32 | 1.3 |
In the United States
In the United States, the surnames are more rare. Ligowski and Legocki are both too rare to be included in the Census datasets. Prevalence based on Census data:
Census Year | # Ligocki | Per 100k pop. | Source |
2010 | 302 | 0.10 | api search |
2000 | 289 | 0.11 | api search |
References
- ↑ Dictionary of American Family Names: 3-Volume Set, Volume 3 Page 437 edited by Patrick Hanks
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