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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish (also Obrębski) and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : habitational name for someone from any of the places called Obręb in Ciechanów, Siedlce, and Tarnobrzeg voivodeships, or from Obręby (Obremby, now in Lithuania), named with obręb ‘precinct’, ‘sphere’.

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