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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish (Podgórski) and Jewish (from Poland) : habitational name for someone from places called Podgóra, Podgóry, Podgórki, or Podgorze, or topographic name for someone who lived at the foot of a hill, from pod ‘under’ + góra ‘hill’, ‘mountain’.

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