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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech and Slovak (Potočník) and Slovenian (Potočnik) : topographic name for someone who lived by a brook, from potok ‘brook’.
  • Slovenian (Potočnik) : old habitational name for someone from any of various places called Potok or Potoče, named with potok ‘brook’.

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