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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish : from a derivative of dziub ‘nose’, ‘peak’, also sometimes applied as a nickname for someone with a pock-marked complexion.
  • Ukrainian and Jewish (from Ukraine) : nickname from Ukrainian dzyuba ‘pock-marked person’.

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