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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : habitational name for someone from Biała, Białe, Bielsk, Bielsko, or various other places in Poland and in Ukraine with a name that incorporates the Slavic element biel- ‘white’ + the surname suffix -ski.

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