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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish : habitational name for someone from Szablewo in Gdańsk voivodeship or Szabły in Łoṃza voivodeship, named with szabla ‘sabre’. The place name was probably applied either to a sabre-shaped piece of land or to a place where a noted swordsman lived.

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