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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish and Ukrainian : habitational name for someone from Obuchowo in Suwałki and Olsztyn voivodeships, or from Obuchów, which is now in Lithuania, or (as a Ukrainian name) from Obukhov near Kiev. These places are named from the nickname Obuch, which is from the vocabulary word obuch ‘back of an axe’.

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