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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Swedish : ornamental name composed of an unexplained first element (probably abstracted from a place-name in Voll-, formed with vall ‘grassy bank’, ‘pasture’) + the adjectival suffix -in.
  • Jewish (American) : shortened form of Wolinski.

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