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Remarks and conclusions on the specificity of surnames of the inhabitants of Southern Silesia, grouped in the thematic blocks were the object of an introductory description, which demands a detailed classifying and analytical overviews in the future. This general outline deepening the knowledge about the consistency and variability of naming processes in 19th century is intended to explain at least a part of interesting issues, referring to the peculiarity of anthroponymy of the researched field in the context of all-Poland and regional research. While analysing the selected issues, references to the knowledge related to synchronic and diachronic description of surnames of particular districts and regions were made. While analysing the anthroponymic material the researcher used the semantic field method, and while describing the collected set of appellative motivated surnames, the sociolinguistic aspect of naming was considered and references to statistical research were made.