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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (of Slavic origin) : from a diminutive of Sorbian haj ‘grove’, either a topographic name for someone who lived by a copse or a metonymic occupational name for a forest warden.
  • Germanized spelling of Polish Gajek, of the same meaning as 1, from a diminutive of gaj ‘grove’.

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