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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish : habitational name for someone from places named Sypniewo in Bydgoszcz, Ostrołęka, and Piła voivodeships, named from sypać, sypnąć ‘to heap up or build (an embankment or dike)’ or ‘to pour or spill’.

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