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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Of Polish origin : partly Germanized form of Polish Worcała, a nickname of German origin, from German dialect Worzel, standard German Wurzel ‘root’. This may be a nickname for someone from a family that had resided in a particular place for many generations.

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