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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : nickname for a poor man or beggar, from Polish bosak ‘barefoot man’, or possibly a metonymic occupational name from bosak ‘boat hook’.
  • Czech and Slovak (Bosák) : nickname for a poor person or beggar, from bosý ‘barefoot’.

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