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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Ukrainian and Polish : from the eastern Slavic personal name Gleb. Gleb, murdered son of Prince Vladimir of Kiev (10th century), is revered as a saint along with his brother Boris.
  • Ukrainian and Polish : possibly also from gleba ‘soil’.

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