Polyak Family History
Polyak Name Meaning
Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic); Hungarian (Polyák): variant of Polak ‘Pole’; as a Jewish name it is from Russian polyak. Compare Poliak . Americanized form of Croatian Serbian Slovenian and Slovak Poljak . Compare Poliak . Rusyn: ethnic or habitational name from polyak ‘Pole’ in Carpathian Ruthenia once denoting someone from Galicia in Poland.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022