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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish and Jewish (from Poland and Belarus) : habitational name for someone from Bojary in Poland, or (in the case of the Jewish name) from Boyary in Belarus.
  • Polish : nickname from bojar ‘boyar’ (a member of the old Russian aristocracy).
  • Jewish (from Ukraine) : habitational name for someone from Boyarka, a place in Ukraine.

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