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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish (Bọzek) : from a pet form of the personal names Boguchwał ‘praise of God’, Bogdan ‘gift of God’, or Chwalibog ‘praise God’.
  • Polish and Ukrainian : from bọzek ‘idol’, ‘pagan divinity’.

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