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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish, Czech, Slovak (Konôpka), and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : nickname for an active person, from konopka ‘linnet’.
  • Polish and Jewish (from Poland) : habitational name from some place named with konopie ‘hemp’, for example Konopki.

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