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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : habitational name from Lubowo in Lithuania.
  • Shortened form of various eastern Ashkenazic Jewish surnames, as for example Lubowitz, a metronymic from the Yiddish female personal name Lube, from Slavic ‘love’, or Lubowski, a habitational name (see 1 above).

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