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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : unexplained.
  • Americanized form of Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) Solovei, ornamental name or occupational nickname for a cantor in a synagogue, from Russian solovei ‘nightingale’.

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