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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish : from the personal name Adam + the surname suffix -ski.
  • Polish and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : habitational name for someone from Adamy or Adamowo, villages in Poland, or from Adamki in Poland and Belarus.

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