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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized spelling of Polish Dobrański or Dobrzański, a habitational name for someone from a place called Dobranowice, named with Dobran, an Old Polish pet form of a personal name formed with Old Slavic dobr ‘good’, as for example Dobros{l-}aw, Dobromir, or Dobrogost.
  • Czech (Dobřanský) : habitational name from a place called Dobřany.

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