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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish : habitational name from any of several places called Zaborowo or Zaborów, probably named with za ‘beyond’ + bór ‘forest’ + -owo or -ów, suffix of place names. Alternatively, it could be a topographic name for someone who lived ‘on the other side of the forest’.

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