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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish : respelling of Shmilovich (from Ukraine) or Szmilowicz (from Poland), patronymics from the Yiddish personal name Shmil, Hebrew Shemuel (see Samuel).
  • Jewish : habitational name for someone from Smilovichi, in Belarus.

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