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Updated January 30, 2024

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Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name for someone from any of many places in Poland and adjacent parts of eastern Europe named Ostrów, named with Polish ostrów ‘island’, ‘water meadow’ (see Ostrow) or a cognate word in a related Slavic language.

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