Polish and Ukrainian: habitational name for someone from Obuchowo
in Suwalki and Olsztyn voivodeships, or from Obuchów, which is
now in Lithuania, or (as a Ukrainian name) from Obukhov near Kiev.
These places are named from the nickname Obuch, which is from
the vocabulary word obuch ‘back of an axe’.
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