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Meaning & History
Derived from the Slavic element dobru "good".
It was used in Medieval Poland among Christians, then by the beginning of the 20th-century was mainly used by Polish Jews. In Poland, it may also occur as a hypochoristic form of any name beginning with the dobr- element. Among Eastern-European Jews, this was used as a vernacular Slavic form of the Latin Bona and the Germanic Gittel.
It was used in Medieval Poland among Christians, then by the beginning of the 20th-century was mainly used by Polish Jews. In Poland, it may also occur as a hypochoristic form of any name beginning with the dobr- element. Among Eastern-European Jews, this was used as a vernacular Slavic form of the Latin Bona and the Germanic Gittel.