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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Hungarian (Jávor); Croatian, Serbian, Slovenian, and Bosnian : from South Slavic javor ‘maple tree’, which is also found as a Slavic loanword in Hungarian. This is found as a topographic name for someone living near a maple tree, a habitational name from a place named with this word, a personal name, and a nickname.

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