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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish : habitational name for someone from either Paradów in Leszno voivodeship or Paradowo (also Poradowo) in Konin voivodeship.
  • Polish : nickname for a swaggerer, from paradować ‘to swagger’, from parada ‘parade’, ‘display’, + the common surname suffix -ski.

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