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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish (common in Silesia) and Jewish (from Poland) : from gruszka ‘pear’, hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who grew or sold pears, or a nickname for someone thought to resemble the fruit. As a Jewish surname it is mainly ornamental.

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