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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : habitational name for someone from the city of Warsaw (Polish Warszawa), which became the capital of Poland at the end of the 16th century, after the destruction of Kraków by fire.
  • Americanized spelling of the Polish form of this name, Warszawski.

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