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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish, Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic), and German (of Slavic origin) : nickname from Slavic kulik ‘curlew’.
  • Czech (Kulík) : from a short form of the personal name Mikuláš, Czech form of Nicholas.
  • Jewish (from Belarus) : habitational name from Kuliki, now in Belarus.

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