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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish : habitational name for someone from either of two places called Palczew, in Kalisz and Radom voivodeships, or from Palczowice; derived from a nickname, Palec, from palec ‘finger’, ‘toe’.

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