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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish (Słoma) and Jewish (from Poland) : from Polish słoma ‘straw’, most probably a nickname for an inconstant person, a ‘straw in the wind’.
  • Jewish (from Poland) : from the Yiddish personal name Shloyme, Yiddish form of Solomon.

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