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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : habitational name for someone from a place called Falkow (now Fałków) for example, probably named from Fałek, a pet form of Chwał, a short form of the personal name Chwalisław. In some instances the Jewish name is a patronymic from the Yiddish personal name Falk.

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