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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a factory owner or manufacturer of any type of goods, from Russian fabrikant ‘manufacturer’, Polish fabrykant ‘manufacturer’, German Fabrikant, from Latin fabricans, fabricantis, present participle of fabricare ‘to make’, a derivative of faber .

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