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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish : habitational name for someone from Kijów in Częstochowa voivodeship, or from Kijowice, or sometimes possibly from the city of Kiev (Polish Kijów), now the capital of Ukraine, all named with Polish kij ‘stick’.

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