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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Russian : habitational name for someone from the city of Samara.
  • Jewish (from Belarus) : etymology uncertain.
  • possibly also a reduced form of the Greek family name Samarinidis, habitational name for someone from a place called Samarina.

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