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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech and Polish (Hałas) : nickname for a noisy person, from Czech halas ‘uproar’, Polish hałas ‘noise’.
  • Respelling, especially in eastern Slovenia, of Hungarian Halász ‘fisherman’ (see Halasz).

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