Family name origins & meanings
- Czech (Hladík) : nickname for a clean-shaven or bald man, from hladký ‘smooth’ + the diminutive suffix -ík.
- Czech (Hladík) : occupational name for a finisher or polisher of furniture, from a derivative of hladit ‘to polish or burnish’, from hladký; the word hladík is also a technical term in carpentry denoting a kind of rasp or plane.