Family name origins & meanings
- Polish (Jeleń), Czech, Slovak (Jeleň), Slovenian, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname or ornamental name from Slavic jelen ‘stag’. Among Jews this was also widely adopted as a translation of Hirsch.
Updated: June 9, 2019
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