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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech and Slovak : from fial(k)a ‘violet’ (the flower). This may have given rise to a surname in various possible ways: as a nickname for a shy, delicate person; as a topographic name for someone who lived where violets grew or a habitational name for someone who lived at a house distinguished with the sign of a bunch of violets.

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