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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : ornamental from Hebrew tarshish ‘chrysolite’.
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : 14, 1 Chronicles 7:10), also a Biblical place name (Genesis 10:4).

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