Bukowski (surname)

Bukowski, Bukovski, or Bukovsky (Belarusian: Букоўскі, Bukouski, Russian: Буковский, Ukrainian: Буковський) is a surname found in several Slavic languages: Polish, Bulgarian, Czech, Belarusian, Russian, Slovak and Ukrainian. It is composed of the common Slavic word buk- (common Slavic for "beech tree") and the Slavic suffixes -ov and -ski.

The feminine forms are Bukowska (Polish), Bukovskaya (Russian, Ukrainian), Bukouskaya (Belarusian), Bukovská (Czech, Slovak), Bukovska (Bulgarian).

In some cases the name may originate from a toponym, i.e. the name would have been given to or adopted by a person or family from a place named Buków, for example .

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