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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish and Czech : from a pet form of Polish Mikołaj or Czech Mikoláš, vernacular forms of the Greek personal name Nikolaos (see Nicholas).
  • Polish (Kołek) : nickname for a solitary person, from kołek ‘peg’.

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