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Karlin Surname Meaning Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): habitational name from Karlin a suburb of Pinsk in Belarus in which the Jews formed the majority of the population until the Holocaust. A well-known Hasidic sect originated in Karlin and at one time it attracted so many followers that a (now obsolete) Russian word for ‘Hasid’ was Karliner (of Yiddish origin). It is possible that at least some ...