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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish : habitational name for someone from any of various places called Pogorzel, Pogorzela, or Pogorzele, named with pogorzeć ‘to burn down’. This is also found as a nickname for someone who had lost his property in a fire.

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