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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish (Ostrów) and Jewish (from Poland) : habitational name from any of several places called Ostrów, named with ostrów ‘island’, ‘water meadow’.
  • Jewish (American) : shortened form of Ostrowski.

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