Zawada (family name)

Zawada is a Polish family name .

origin

1. Zawada is a nickname for Polish zawada , meaning "obstacle, difficulty, resistance".
2. Derivation from the Czech závada also means "lack, error, damage, infirmity".

pronunciation

Polish [ zaˈvada ].

Name bearer

Zawada is the family name of the following people:

• Andrzej Zawada (alpinist) (1928-2000), Polish alpinist
• Andrzej Zawada (literary historian) (* 1948), Polish literary historian, literary critic, essayist and university professor
• Filip Zawada (* 1975), Polish poet, musician and photographer
• Magdalena Zawada (* 1985), Polish natural track tobogganist
• Oskar Zawada (* 1996), Polish football player
• Sławomir Zawada (* 1965), Polish weightlifter
• Tadeusz Zawada (* 1951), Polish cyclist

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Duden Familiennames , Dudenverlag, Mannheim 2005, ISBN 3-411-70852-2 , p. 739.