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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for someone who extracted or used potash (in bleaching paper or material for example), from Yiddish potash, eastern Slavic potash, German Pottasche, ‘potash’.

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