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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish (Słomka) : nickname for a thin or insignificant person, from słomka ‘blade of straw’, ‘straw stalk’.
  • Jewish (from Poland) : from a pet form of the Yiddish personal name Shloyme, Yiddish form of Solomon.

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