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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish (Późniak), Jewish (from Poland and Belarus), and Belorussian : nickname from a noun derivative of późny ‘late’. This was sometimes used for a person who habitually turned up late, but was more generally a nickname for someone who was born some days later than expected, or someone who was born when his parents were already rather old.

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