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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish (Kaliński) and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) :
  • habitational name for someone from a place called Kalina, named with Polish kalina ‘snowball tree’, ‘guelder rose’.
  • habitational name for someone from a place called Kaliń, now Kaleń, named with kaleń ‘pool’, ‘puddle’.

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