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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish : habitational name for someone from Polaki in Sieradz voivodeship, or Polakowa in Belarus.
  • Polish and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from Polak ‘Pole’, with the addition of the Polish adjectival ending -owski (in this case with a patronymic function).

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