Obuchowski Family History
Obuchowski Name Meaning
Polish: habitational name for someone from Obuchowo in Podlaskie and Warmian-Masurian voivodeships or from Obuchów which is now in Lithuania. These places are named from the nickname Obuch which is from the vocabulary word obuch ‘back of an axe’. In some cases possibly also an altered form of Ukrainian Obukhovsky: habitational name for someone from Obukhov near Kiev a cognate of 1 above.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022