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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish, Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic), and eastern German : habitational name from any of various places named with Slavic grab ‘hornbeam’ (the wood which was used for making yokes), for example Grabów, Grabowa, Grabowo.

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