Family name origins & meanings
- Polish (Żeleżnik) : occupational name for a metalworker, Polish ̣zeleźnik.
- Slovenian (Železnik) : derivative from železo ‘iron’, probably a nickname from the plant name železnik (Latin Lithospermum), a plant noted for its hard seeds, or an old habitational name for a person from any of places called Železno, named with železo ‘iron’.