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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech (Dvořák) : status name for a rich farmer, one who owned a manor house, from Czech dvůr ‘manor’, ‘estate’, or in some cases an occupational name for someone who worked at a manor house rather than on the land. Compare Sedlak. In Moravia the term denoted a freeholder subject only to the king. This is the fourth most common surname in the Czech lands.

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