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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish (Ćwik) : from ćwik ‘game bird’, hence a nickname for someone thought to resemble a bird in some way, or from the same word in the sense ‘experienced man’.
  • Polish : nickname for an imbecile, from a variant of ćwiek ‘hobnail’.

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