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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish and Eastern German (of Slavic origin) : habitational name for someone from one of many places called Wola, named in Latin as libera villa ‘free village’, i.e. a settlement which was awarded liberty or relieved from certain duties. Compare Zwolinski, also Villafranca.

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