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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic), Ukrainian, and Belorussian : variant of Holub.
  • German : from Sorbian golub ‘dove’, a metonymic occupational name for someone who bred or looked after doves, which were reared for food in the Middle Ages. See also Holub.

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