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Does anyone know where the name "shirshun" originated from??
i know that it used to be "Shirshunovitch" or "shirshunovich" but got shortened when my ancestors moved to america....
i'm thinking russian but im not sure - got any ideas?
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The -ovich ending is a Slavic patronymic ending, so this would appear to denote descent from someone whose given name was Shirshun. So far I haven't found an example of this as a forename. What language? The -ovich ending is found in the surnames of Serbia, Croatia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Poland, with a variety of spellings. It was also favoured by Eastern European Jews and Gipsies. So where to start? I don't think Shirshun is Slavic. Googling Shirshun I got only American examples; googling Shirshunovich, with variations in spelling, got nothing.
Do you know if it's Jewish?
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