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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish : nickname from Polish dialect kurasz, kuraś ‘big fat rooster’, a derivative of kur ‘rooster’.
  • Czech (Kuraš) : from an altered form of the personal name Kornel, Czech form of Cornelius (see Cornell).
  • Jewish (from Belarus) : perhaps a habitational name for someone from the village of Kurashi in Belarus.

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