Common in Central (Czech Republic, Poland) and Eastern Europe (Ukraine, and Russia), it originated as a place-related name for "someone who lived by a poplar tree".
[1] It is also found among Ashkenazic Jewish people speaking Eastern Yiddish and likewise refers to the poplar tree,[1] having been borrowed from a Slavic language (Proto-Slavic *topolь).
Related surnames include Topiol, Topolansky, Topoliansky, Topolski (common in Poland), and Topolsky.
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