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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Russian and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : occupational name from eastern Slavic lopata ‘shovel’ + the possessive suffix -in.
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : habitational name for someone from either of two places called Lopatin, one now in Ukraine and one in Belarus.

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