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Updated March 27, 2024

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Family name origins & meanings

  • Ukrainian and Czech; Hungarian (Karmazsin); and Jewish (from Ukraine and Poland) : from karmazin (Czech karmazín) ‘dark red cloth’ (ultimately from Arabic qirmizī ‘crimson’), probably a metonymic occupational name for a dyer or a producer of dyestuffs.

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