Frequency: (215)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Polish (also Obrębski) and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): habitational name for someone from any of the places called Obręb in Ciechanów, Siedlce, and Tarnobrzeg voivodeships, or from Obręby (Obremby, now in Lithuania), named with obręb ‘precinct’, ‘sphere’.
GIVEN NAMES: Polish 5%. Karol, Zigmund, Zigmunt.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
