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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech (Kosař) : from an agent noun derivative of kosa ‘scythe’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of sickles and scythes or a metonymic occupational name for a reaper.
  • Hungarian (Kosár) : from the southern Slavic loanword kosár ‘basket’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a basketmaker.
  • Bulgarian and Macedonian : from kosar, koser ‘beehive’, hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who made skeps or produced and sold honey.

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