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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish : topographic name for someone who lived ‘on the other side of the river’, from Polish za ‘beyond’ + rzeka ‘river’, with the addition of -ski, suffix of local surnames.
  • Polish and Jewish (from Poland) : habitational name from Zarzecze in northeastern Poland.

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