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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish : habitational name for someone from any of various places called Orzechów or Orzechowo, named with orzech ‘nut’, ‘hazelnut’. It may also be a topographic name for someone living by a hazelnut tree, or a nickname for someone with light brown hair, from the adjective orzechowy ‘hazel’.

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