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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish (Siemieński) : habitational name for someone from any of various places called Siemień, in Bielsk, Podlaski, and Łoṃza voivodeships, or Siemienie in Nowy Sącz and Płock voivodeships. The place names are from a short form of any of various Old Polish personal names such as Siemisław, Siemomyśl, and Siemirad (see Semerad), having Old Slavic sěmi ‘person’ or sěmja ‘family’ as the first element.

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