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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech : nickname for someone with red hair, from a derivative of rezarý ‘red’, ‘rusty’.
  • Slovenian (Režek) : probably a nickname for a person who was habitually smirking, from režek, from an agent noun derivative of režati se ‘to smirk’.

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