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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Ukrainian, Belorussian, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name for someone from any of various places called in Russian Dombrovo, Dombrova, or Dombrovka, for example in the districts of Zhitomir, Vladimir, or Kamenets in Ukraine, or from any of various places called Dombrowa (in Polish, D{a,}browa) (see Dabrowski).

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