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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish and Jewish (from Poland) : habitational name for someone from any of various places called Konary, from Polish konarze ‘grooms’.
  • Polish : occupational name for a horse breeder or for someone who worked with horses, from Old Polish konarski ‘groom’, a derivative of koń ‘horse’.

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