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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish, Ukrainian, Czech, and Slovenian; Hungarian (Jankó) : from a pet form of the Slavic personal name Jan, Slovenian Janez, Hungarian János, vernacular forms of Latin Johannes (see John).
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from a pet form of the personal name Yakov (see Jacob).

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