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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : habitational name from any of several places in Ukraine and Belarus called Dolina, from Slavic dolina ‘valley’.
  • French : metonymic occupational name for a carpenter, from a derivative of doler ‘to shave or plane’.
  • Probably a variant spelling of Dolen.

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