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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish : from the Old Slavic personal name sambor, composed of the elements sam ‘alone’ + bor ‘fight’.
  • Polish and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : habitational name from Sambor, now Sambir in Ukraine.

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