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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish, Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic), Ukrainian, and Belorussian : regional name for someone from Polesie, a region covering parts of modern Belarus, Poland, and Ukraine.
  • Polish : habitational name for someone from any of various places called Polesie, named with a Slavic word meaning ‘forest glade’ or ‘cleared forest land’.

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