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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech : nickname from (v)okoun ‘perch’ (the fish), denoting either a perch fisherman or someone thought to resemble a perch.
  • Czech : from (v)oko ‘eye’, a nickname for someone with expressive eyes.

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