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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Russian, Ukrainian, and Jewish (from Ukraine and Belarus) : from the eastern Slavic adjective levitskij ‘Levitical’. As a Jewish name it denotes members of the hereditary caste of Levites (see Levi). As a Slavic name it is an ornamental name with Biblical associations, which was adopted mainly by students of religious high schools.

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