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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish (Smoleń) : unflattering nickname for a dirty person, from Polish smolić się ‘to soil’, ‘make dirty’.
  • Polish (Smoleń) : perhaps also a habitational name from places called Smoleń, in Ciechanów and Katowice voivodeships.

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