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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish : occupational name for a pastrycook, from placek ‘cake’.
  • Czech (Plaček) : nickname from Czech plaček ‘moaner’, ‘weeper’, from pláč ‘to cry’, ‘bewail one’s lot’.

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