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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish and Czech : nickname from a diminutive of Kos ‘blackbird’.
  • Polish and Czech (Košek) : nickname or metonymic occupational name from a diminutive of kosa ‘scythe’.
  • Czech : from a pet form of the personal name Koša (see Kosa).

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