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Vinokur

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a distiller, Russian vinokur, from vino ‘wine’, earlier used also to denote liquor of all kinds, including spirits, + kurit ‘to distil’.

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