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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech and Jewish (from Bohemia) : nickname from kavka ‘jackdaw’, applied as a nickname, ornamental name, or habitational name for someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of a jackdaw.
  • Jewish (from Bohemia) : from a pet form of the personal name Jakov (see Jacob).

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