Krajniak Family History

Slovak: habitational name for someone from Krajné (in Nitra region in central Slovakia) or topographic name for someone who lived on the edge of a village from krajný an adjectival derivative of kraj ‘end border’. Polish: habitational name for someone from the Krajna region situated between the Greater Poland Kuyavian-Pomeranian and Pomeranian voivodeships.

Polish and Rusyn (from Poland): topographic name for someone who lived on the edge of a village a derivative of the Old Polish adjective krajny ‘at the end on the edge on the border’ (compare 1 Krajnik and Rusyn Kraynik).