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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Ukrainian, Belorussian, Slovak, Polish, and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : nickname from the eastern Slavic word m(o)roz ‘frost’.
  • Romanian : from Russian moroz ‘frost’ or Bulgarian moruza ‘grain’.

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