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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German, Slovenian, English, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname for a lively and cheerful person, or, in the case of the Jewish name, an ornamental name, from a Germanic word meaning ‘finch’ (see Finch). As a Slovenian surname, it may also be a translation into German of the Slovenian surname Šinkovec (from an old spelling of ščinkovec or ščinkavec ‘finch’).

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