Zadrozny or Zadrożny (feminine: Zadrożna, plural Zadrożni) is a Polish-language surname. The ż is pronounced like the g in mirage. It is a geographic surname, meaning "beyond the way."
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The name is most commonly found in Poland, the United States and Brazil. According to the website moikrewni.pl, there are 1,894 people in Poland with the surname Zadrozny. The highest concentrations live in Warsaw (235) and the areas to the northwest and west of the capital in Ostrów Mazowiecka (119), Garwolin (118) and Przasnysz (63).
History
An early reference to the name Zadrozny is the birth of Jakub Zadrozny in 1788 in Laskowizna, Mazowieckie, Poland, son of Pawel Zadrozny and Ewa Pomichterow.
One of the earliest records of the name Zadrozny in America is the Ellis Island arrival documentation of Jan Zadrozny who arrived aboard the S.S. Aachen in 1896.