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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech and Slovak (Hnát) : nickname for someone with long or bony limbs, from hnát ‘bone’, ‘limb’.
  • Czech and Slovak (Hnát) : from a short form of the personal name Ignát, a vernacular form of Ignatius (see Ignacio).

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