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Surnames/tags: Ligocki Ligocka Legocki
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Origin
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.
Legocki and Legoski are variant spellings seen for example in Sheridan, Wyoming.
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| Forefather | Year Born | Location in Poland | # Ligocki descendants[2] | # Descendants[3] | WikiTree Members |
| Matthias Ligocki | 1786 | Inowrocław County | 79 | 224 | Shawn Ligocki |
| August Ligocki | 1826 | Nakło County | 24 | 55 | Richard Nowakowski |
| Andrew Ligocki | 1850 | ? | 5 | 16 | Chris Bare |
| Mikołaj Ligocki | 1760 | Konin County | 32 | 51 | |
| Joseph Ligocki | 1860 | Cieszyn County | 8 | 19 | |
| Franciszek Ligocki | 1843 | Inowrocław County | 6 | 9 | |
| Walenty Ligocki | 1785 | Inowrocław County | 5 | 12 | |
| Kazmierz Stephan Ligocki | 1881 | Labosze, Russian Poland(?) | 4 | 8 |
Stragglers:
Prevalence
In Poland
The Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (Directory of Surnames in Current Use in Poland) which collected 93% of all surnames of people in Poland in 1990 lists 1,776 Ligocki's (including Ligocka's). Which means that 4 out of every 100,000 people in Poland in 1990 had this name. They are distributed throughout 38/49 Polish voivodeships at the time. The top were:
| Voivodeship | # Ligockis | Proportion Ligockis (per 100,000 population) |
| Bielsko-Biała | 329 | 35.5 |
| Konin | 249 | 51.8 |
| Katowice | 196 | 5.0 |
| Poznan | 127 | 9.3 |
| Bydgoszcz | 105 | 9.2 |
| Zielona Góra | 64 | 9.4 |
In the United States
In the 2010 Census, there were 302 Ligockis in the United States (0.1/100K). In 2000 there were 289.
References
- ↑ Dictionary of American Family Names: 3-Volume Set, Volume 3 Page 437 edited by Patrick Hanks
- ↑ Using Y DNA Descendants
- ↑ Using WikiTree+ Descendants Report
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