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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) and Ukrainian : nickname for someone with a dark complexion, from Belorussian and Yiddish murin, Ukrainian muryn ‘moor’.
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : habitational name from Muriny in Belarus.

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