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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech (Hladík) : nickname for a clean-shaven or bald man, from hladký ‘smooth’ + the diminutive suffix -ík.
  • Czech (Hladík) : occupational name for a finisher or polisher of furniture, from a derivative of hladit ‘to polish or burnish’, from hladký; the word hladík is also a technical term in carpentry denoting a kind of rasp or plane.

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