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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish : from a pet form of the personal name Pietr, dialect form of Piotr (see Peter).
  • Polish : from an augmentative form of pietruszka ‘parsley’, a metonymic occupational name for someone who grew or sold this herb.

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