"chuprik" surname
our familys surname was chuprik. my father's side is from poland (we are jewish). anyone knows what is the meening of this name "chuprik"?
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It looks Ukrainian, or it might be an English-Language spelling of the Polish Czupryk. It may be related in meaning to the Polish surnames Czupryniak and Czuprynski, which my source says are nicknames for a person with a thick head of hair.
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