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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : habitational name for someone from any of many places in different parts of eastern Europe named Ostrov, from Eastern Slavic ostrov ‘island’, ‘water meadow’.

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