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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish and Jewish (from Poland) : habitational name for someone from places called Kalinowa, Kalinowo, Kalinów, named with Polish kalina ‘snowball tree’, ‘guelder rose’ (a species of viburnum). See also Kalina.

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