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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish and Jewish (from Poland) : habitational name for someone from Jakubów, Jakubowo, or Jakubowice, all places named with Jakub, vernacular form of Latin Jacobus (see Jacob).
  • Jewish (from Poland) : patronymic from the personal name Jakub (see Jacob).

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