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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish : habitational name for someone from Karbowo in Toruń voivodeship, a place so named from Polish karbowy ‘overseer (of farm laborers)’, from karbować ‘to make notches’, i.e. to keep records.

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