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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Russian and Jewish (from Belarus) : patronymic from the nickname soroka ‘magpie’, denoting a garrulous or thievish person, or someone with a streak of white among black hair. In the case of the Jewish surname it is normally an ornamental name, one of the many taken from the names of birds.

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