Family name origins & meanings
- Polish and Jewish (from Poland) : habitational name for someone from a place called Myszkowo, Myszków, or Myszkowice, all named with myszka ‘mouse’.
- This name was borne by many nobles who played a significant role in Polish history, amongst them Piotr Myszkowski (1505–91), bishop of Kraków, and Zygmunt Myszkowski (1562–1615), grand marshal of Poland.
