Etymology

Ostroff

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Today it means: A surname from Slavic. Full definition →

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The story

* As a Jewish surname, Westernized from Ostrov. * As a Jewish and Slavic surname of Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian origin, shortened from Ostrovsky.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.