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Updated January 30, 2024

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Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish : habitational name for someone from Kowalskie in Poznań voivodeship or a place called Kowale.
  • Polish and Jewish (from Poland) : patronymic from Kowal, an occupational name from kowal ‘smith’, with the addition of the common surname suffix -ski.

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