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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech and Slovak : regional name for someone from Moravia (Czech Morava), a region in the eastern part of what is now the Czech Republic, named for the river which flows through it. From the 11th century onwards it was a crownland of the kingdom of Bohemia.

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