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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish (Górny) : habitational name for someone from a place called Górne.
  • Polish (Górny) : from the adjective górny ‘upper’, ‘superior’, applied either as a topographic name for someone who lived in the upper part of a settlement, etc., or as a nickname for someone considered to have superior abilities.

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