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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish : metronymic from the female personal name Urszula (Latin Ursula, from a feminine diminutive of ursus ‘bear’). St. Ursula was a 4th-century martyr who was put to death at Cologne and whose cult stretched far across north central Europe.

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