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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish and Jewish (from Poland) : from toporek ‘hatchet’, a diminutive of Polish topór ‘axe’, hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who made hatchets or axes, or used them. The Jewish name may be ornamental.

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