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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Altered spelling of Polish Grodzki, a habitational name from Grodziec or Grodzie, places named with gród ‘castle’, ‘fortification’ (cognate with Russian grad).
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : habitational name (see 1).

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