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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : habitational name from places called Dvortsy, or (Novy) Dvor, in Belarus and Ukraine.
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : topographic name from Polish dworski ‘manorial’. Compare Dworak.

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