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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized spelling of Polish Okraj, from okraj ‘border’, ‘edge’. This is either a topographic name denoting someone living near a frontier, or a nickname for someone who used to cut something (e.g. a tailor).

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