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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech (Kožík) : metonymic occupational name for a tanner or a leather merchant, from kůže ‘skin’, ‘leather’.
  • Polish : from a pet form of kozia ‘nanny goat’ (see Koza).
  • Polish : possibly also from kozik ‘clasp knife’.

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