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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech (Krásný), Slovak (Krásny), Polish, and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : nickname from the common Slavic word krasny ‘handsome’, ‘beautiful’, ‘colorful’, and (in modern Russian) ‘red’.

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