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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish (Dubiński) and Jewish (from Poland) : habitational name for someone from any of the places called Dubin, from dub, d{a,}b ‘oak’.
  • Jewish (from Belarus, Lithuania, and Ukraine) : habitational name, a variant of Dubin + the locative suffix -ski.

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