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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : unexplained; perhaps a habitational name from Dole in the Jura.
  • Variant of Czech Dolejš ‘lower’, a distinguishing epithet for one of two or more bearers of the same personal name, living in the lower part of the village. Compare Hořejš (see Horejsi).
  • Slovenian : unexplained.

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