To all the "iak's" .......the following may or may not be of
any significance in you're research but I thought I'd pass it
on. The following is by: Wm. F. Hoffman on "Polish Surnames Origination's & Meanings"
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BLOHOVIAK is just a phonetic spelling of BL-ochowiak (l- = the Polish slashed l, pronounced like our w). the latter is the form that matters. There are several ways that the name could have originated. It could be from German BLOCH, "block"; from a variant of WL-och, "foreigner", as a rabbinical surname; or as one of those nicknames of the kind I mentioned above. In this case everything but the BL-, and added suffixes. In this scenario BLOCH- started out as a nickname, the -ow- is a possessive suffix, and the -iak usually means "person from", of, son of." Thus this name might mean "person from BL-ochowo or BL-ochy (='Bloch's Place') " There is a village Bl-ochy in Ostroleka province--the surname MIGHT come from that. But it could have originated several other ways.
These days in Poland "BLOCHOWIAK" is not extremely common, but it's not rare either--as of 1990 there were 518 Poles by this name. They live all over the country, but with the largestnumbers in the provinces of Bydgoszcz (92), Gdansk (40), Leszno (63) and Pozan (167)

by: Wm. F. Hoffman
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examples
BLOCHOWIAK from Bl-ochy, Poland
JANKOWIAK from Jankowo, Poland
ALBINIAK from Lubelski, Poland
JOZOWIAK from Gniezo, Poland
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Dan Blohowiak teweco@hcnews.com