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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech (Javorský) : topographic name for someone who lived by a maple or sycamore tree, Czech javor.
  • Jewish (from Belarus) : habitational name from the village of Yavor in Belarus. Compare Polish Jaworski.

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