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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish, Ukrainian, and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : regional name for someone from Podolia in Ukraine (Polish Podole, Yiddish podolye; a region which had a large Jewish population from the Middle Ages up to the Second World War), or a habitational name for someone from any of numerous other regions named Podole.

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