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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish and Jewish (from Poland) : from Polish skowronek ‘skylark’, applied as a nickname for a happy, cheerful person, or, in the case of the Jewish surname, as an ornamental name. This surname is also established in Germany, where it is usually written Skowronnek.

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