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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech (Leský) : from an adjectival form of Czech les ‘forest’, a topographic name for someone living in a forest, an occupational name for a woodman, or a habitational name for someone from any of the many places in Bohemia named with this word.

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