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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish, Czech, Slovak, and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : from western and eastern Slavic koza ‘nanny goat’, probably applied as a nickname for someone thought to resemble a goat, or alternatively as a metonymic occupational name for a goatherd.

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