Family name origins & meanings
- Polish (Kuźnik) : occupational name for a blacksmith, from a diminutive of kuźnia ‘smithy’, ‘forge’ (see Kuznia).
- Slovenian (central Slovenia; Kužnik) : unflattering nickname from the archaic word kužnik ‘person with bubonic plague’, a derivative of the adjective kužen ‘pestilential’, from kuga ‘(bubonic) plague’.