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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech (Vlček) : nickname from a diminutive of Vlk, i.e. ‘little wolf’.
  • Czech (Vlček) : nickname for a brisk, quick person, from the same word, vlček, denoting a simple toy on the flywheel principle. The idiom točit se jako vlček ‘to turn like a flywheel’, is applied to people.

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