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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish and Jewish (from Poland) : variant of Gora.
  • Ukrainian and Belorussian : from a pet form of Gury, a variant of Hury (see George).
  • Albanian : from gur(i) ‘stone’, either a topographic name or a nickname for a tough character, or from a place called Gura, named with this word.

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