 The name of the village until the sixteenth century was written differently, Kowalewo alias Skorupki, or Skorupki Kowalewo.Near the village there was a settlement Kowalewo-Sule having been listed at the end of the eighteenth century (lying between Kovalev and Białutami Podbornym).Initially it was a village belonging to one branch of the Kowalewo family.