About
Welcome to Tokarski.com, the home of Tom, Lupita, Allison, Emily, and Anne Tokarski.
Tom loves being dad to three delightful daughters and husband to a wonderful wife. Professionally, Tom has enjoyed a career in the engineering and high-tech industries (focus on human factors, user experience, and user interface design) with stints at Sargent & Lundy Engineers, InStep Software, InstallShield, and Macrovision. Currently, he’s involved in freelance user experience consulting and pursuing entrepreneurial opportunities. View Tom’s LinkedIn profile or get in contact with Tom via email: tom at tokarski dot com.
The Name
Many have had trouble pronouncing our name – it’s pretty simple when you break it down into the three basic syllables (hence the visual aid above) – toe – car – ski.The Tokarski name is Polish (the ’ski’ gives it away) – and, loosely translated, means “of the lathe worker” (or something to that effect) – if we wanted to ‘americanize’ the name – “Turner” would probably be the appropriate fit (from a meaning standpoint – “turning the lathe”, etc..). To my surprise (as I was putting this page together), I found this interesting corroborating tidbit via google: meaning of the Tokarski surname on PolishRoots – Surnames: Origins and Meanings:
As of 1990, according to the best data available (the Slownik nazwisk wspolczesnie w Polsce uzywanych, “Directory of Surnames in Current Use in Poland,” which covers about 94% of the population of Poland), there were 11,175 Polish citizens by this name. They lived all over the country, with no significant concentration in any one region.
Polish name expert Prof. Kazimierz Rymut mentions this name in his book Nazwiska Polakow [The Surnames of Poles]. He says it comes ultimately from the noun tokarz, “operator of a lathe.” It could have developed as meaning simply “kin of the lathe operator,” or it could indicate family origin in a place named Tokary or something similar, which in turn surely got its name from some association with lathe operators.
Where
We live in a suburb Northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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