Posted on 01/03/2016 1:24:11 AM PST by CharlesOConnell
Does this name sounds especially cool for American audiences or something? I had a discussion on a Russian cinema forum a few weeks before about this name. I basically shot the original poster's idea off, saying that this name is a very common Polish last name. But, this week i absolutely unrelatedly watched Vanishing Point and here is another Kowalski! After that, i just can't ignore this anymore. Even today i randomly clicked on Noble Bigot and again stumbled on quote by yet another Kowalski. What's going on? How can Polish last name (not even the most popular one) can crop up so often:
Imdb lists 200+ of Kowalski, ok we can probably cut it in half, because of all polish productions listed in there (because of common occurrence of that name in in Poland). We can cut it a little bit more excluding numerous adaptations of "Streetcar Desire" or direct homages (like in Due South) but we still have an impressive list left.
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I think it means “Smith.” In fact, find the most common name in any language, and it means “Smith.”
Also in “Stargate” and “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea”
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Killer Kowalski
Forgot about her.
There’s a character in a book I’m reading, a “Sigma Force” novel by James Rollins, that is named Kolwalski.
Think it says Kozlowski, but due to that picture she is number 1 on the Kowalski list!
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They know about that time you put ketchup on your Polish sausage! Oh, the torment the sauerkraut had to endure!
Maybe, but the Indian name Patel has something to do with being a farmer, IIRC.
I can think immediately of two reasons. Chicago, the second largest Polish city on Earth after Warsaw and unofficial capital of the American heartland, probably has an abundance of Kowalski’s. That alone would embed the name into the American psyche alongside Smith and Jones. Second, I’ve been to Poland a few times and “Kowalski” has an adequate balance of vowels and consonants making it one of the few Polish names most Americans can correctly pronounce.
Compared to most Polish names, Kowalski almost pronounces its self.
Killer Kowalski any relation to Tarzan Kowalski who wrestled in the ‘50s? Watched him when I was young . . . from Marigold Gardens in Chicago, Jack Brickhouse announcing.
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Alexander Graham Kowalski was the worlds first Telephone Pole!
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