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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish : habitational name for someone from any of the various places called Ceg{l-}y, from ceg{l-}a ‘brick’ or Cegielnia, from cegielna ‘brickworks’, or a topographic name for someone who lived by a brickworks.

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