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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : occupational nickname for someone who worked for a low wage, from Yiddish bilik ‘cheap’.
  • Ukrainian and Polish (Bielik) : nickname from Ukrainian bilik, Polish bielik ‘golden eagle’, or else a nickname for someone with fair hair or a pale complexion (see Bielen).

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