Family name origins & meanings
- Czech (Smrekář) and Slovak (Smrek) : occupational or topographic name for someone who worked or lived in a spruce forest, from an agent noun derivative of the dialect word smrek ‘spruce’ (standard Czech smrk).
- Slovenian : topographic name derived from smreka ‘spruce fir’, probably denoting someone who lived in a place where spruces grew.