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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : acronymic name from the Hebrew expression Morenu Harav Rabbi Shmuel Koidanover ‘our teacher Rabbi Samuel Koidanover’, the name of a talmudic scholar and preacher from eastern Europe who lived in the 17th century.

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