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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish (also Kossowski) and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : habitational name for someone from any of various places called Kosowa, Kos(s)ów, Kos(s)owo, or Kossewo, named with kos ‘blackbird’.

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