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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish : habitational name for someone from places called Kowalew or Kowalewo, named with kowal ‘smith’.
  • Jewish (from Poland) : occupational name from the vocabulary word kowal ‘smith’, with the addition of the common surname ending -ewski.

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