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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish, Czech (Polák), and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ethnic name for someone from Poland. In the case of the Ashkenazic name, the reference is to a Jew from Poland. The name of the country (Polish Polska) derives from a Slavic element pole ‘open country’, ‘cleared land’.

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