Family name origins & meanings
- Hungarian : from the old secular personal name (later also ecclesiastical name) Farkas.
- Hungarian : nickname from farkas ‘wolf’.
- Slovenian, Czech, and Slovak (Farkaš) : nickname from Old Slavic farkaš ‘wolf’, a word of Hungarian origin.
- Jewish (from Hungary) : translation of the Yiddish personal name Volf meaning ‘wolf’, or else an ornamental adoption of the Hungarian word.