Surname: KIEBUZ, KIEBUS, KEBUZ, KEBUS, KIEBISH, KIEBUZINSKI or KIBUZINSKI
Meaning / Origin: The most likely meaning is that in Polish or Ukrainian the surname comes from the name of a bird "kebuz" (also "kobus" or "kobuz"). A “kebuz” is a type of falcon or hawk. Kiebuzinski may be a variation, with the addition of the suffix –in-sk-, being an attempt for some family members to associate with the Polish szlachta (e.g. nobility) (Sources: Redko, Iulian. Slovnyk suchasnykh ukrainskykh prizvyshch (Lviv: Naukove t-vo im. Shevchenka, 2007), v.1; Etmymolohichnyi slovnyk ukrainskoi movy (Kyiv, 1985), v.2, p. 478; Linde, Samuel Bogumil. Slownik jezyka polskiego (Warszawa: Wyd-wo "Gutenberg-Print", 1994), v.2, p. 392).
The names appear interchangeably in Ukrainian Greek Catholic sacramental records for parishes in and near Przemysl from the late 18th century through to the turn of the 20th century. Some family members went by the full name Kiebuz vel Kiebuzinski (Кебуз вел Кебузинський).
Another less likely meaning includes the Dutch word “kiebes,” “kebes,” or “kiebus” derived from a Yiddish word for head, or foreman or chief (Source: Kamp, Justus van de, and Jacob van der Wijk. Koosjer Nederlands: Joodse woorden in de Nederlandse taal. Amsterdam, 2006, p. 293).
Family members have also suggested other possibilities linked to Turkish place names and words. There is a Turkish place called "Kebusiye". There is also the word "kabus" which means nightmare or bad dream in Turkish.
Countries of origin: The surnames of Kiebuz and Kiebuzinski (with their various variant spellings) are Ukrainian and Polish. According to the World Names Profiler, Jaroslaw county, Podkarpackie province, Poland has the highest frequency per million residents with the name Kiebuz at 2.67 per million. The name Kiebus is found in the highest frequency per million residents in Wielun county, Lodzkie province, Poland at 9.72 per million, with Glastonbury, Connecticut in a distant second at 1.88.
According to http://www.moikrewni.pl/mapa/kompletny/kiebus.html, there are 41 listings for Kiebus in Poland with the highest concentration in Olesnica (with 23), followed by Wroclaw, Trzebnica, Klodzko, and Szczecin. For Kiebuz, http://www.moikrewni.pl/mapa/kompletny/kiebuz.html, there are only three listings, with two in Przemysl and one in Klodzko.
Family members have also suggested other possibilities linked to Turkish place names and words. There is a Turkish place called "Kebusiye". There is also the word "kabus" which means nightmare or bad dream in Turkish.
Countries of origin: The surnames of Kiebuz and Kiebuzinski (with their various variant spellings) are Ukrainian and Polish. According to the World Names Profiler, Jaroslaw county, Podkarpackie province, Poland has the highest frequency per million residents with the name Kiebuz at 2.67 per million. The name Kiebus is found in the highest frequency per million residents in Wielun county, Lodzkie province, Poland at 9.72 per million, with Glastonbury, Connecticut in a distant second at 1.88.
According to http://www.moikrewni.pl/mapa/kompletny/kiebus.html, there are 41 listings for Kiebus in Poland with the highest concentration in Olesnica (with 23), followed by Wroclaw, Trzebnica, Klodzko, and Szczecin. For Kiebuz, http://www.moikrewni.pl/mapa/kompletny/kiebuz.html, there are only three listings, with two in Przemysl and one in Klodzko.
My family: This is the surname of my father. My Kiebuzinski family comes from Pikulice, Poland, a village 5 km south of Przemysl city centre. My earliest ancestor so far is my great, great, great grandfather, Oleksa Kiebuz, born around 1800, likely in Pikulice, Poland. My known line of descent is as follows: Iosyp (b. 1835, Pikulice) > son Iosyp (b. 1869-d. 1938, Pikulice) > son Hryhorii (b. 1907, Pikulice-d. 1944, Bibrka).
Hryhorii's oldest brother Stepan, who was born in 1895, died in 1934. His brother Vasyl (b.1903-d. 1974) and sisters Maria (b. 1896-d. 1970) and Olha (b. 1914-d. 2001) were deported from their ancestral home in Pikulice after the Second World War to Ukraine where they died. His older brother Ivan (b. 1905) became a Ukrainian Catholic priest and was executed by Soviet police in Dobromyl, Poland, in 1941. Hryhorii's two younger brothers, Iosyp (Josef) and Volodymyr (Walter), immigrated to the United States in the late 1940s.
Hryhorii's oldest brother Stepan, who was born in 1895, died in 1934. His brother Vasyl (b.1903-d. 1974) and sisters Maria (b. 1896-d. 1970) and Olha (b. 1914-d. 2001) were deported from their ancestral home in Pikulice after the Second World War to Ukraine where they died. His older brother Ivan (b. 1905) became a Ukrainian Catholic priest and was executed by Soviet police in Dobromyl, Poland, in 1941. Hryhorii's two younger brothers, Iosyp (Josef) and Volodymyr (Walter), immigrated to the United States in the late 1940s.
