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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Russian, Belorussian, and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : habitational name for someone from Minsk, now the capital of Belarus.
  • Jewish (from Poland) : habitational name for someone from Mińsk Mazowiecki, in Poland.

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