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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish (Jeleń), Czech, Slovak (Jeleň), Slovenian, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname or ornamental name from Slavic jelen ‘stag’. Among Jews this was also widely adopted as a translation of Hirsch.

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