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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish : nickname for a unassertive or humble man, from Polish pokora ‘submission’ + -ski, suffix of surnames. Compare Pokorny.
  • Polish : habitational name from Pokorze in Skierniewice voivodeship.

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