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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : from the Yiddish personal name Oyzer, meaning ‘helper’ in Hebrew.
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : habitational name from a place called Ozery, now in Belarus.
  • Muslim : from the Turkish form of the Arabic personal name ’Uzayr, the name of a prophet (the Biblical Ezra).

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