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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized form of Hungarian Szarka ‘magpie’, a nickname for a thief.
  • Czech (Šárka) : topographic name for someone living by a bend in a river, from a derivative of the Old Czech adjective šárový ‘curved’.
  • Czech (Šarka) : descriptive nickname from šarý ‘gray’.

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