Family name origins & meanings
- Polish and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : habitational name for someone from any of the various places named Osów, Osowa, Osowo, Ossowo, Ossowa, etc., all named either with osowy (adjective) ‘aspen’ or with osa ‘wasp’.
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