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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish (Kuźnik) : occupational name for a blacksmith, from a diminutive of kuźnia ‘smithy’, ‘forge’ (see Kuznia).
  • Slovenian (central Slovenia; Kužnik) : unflattering nickname from the archaic word kužnik ‘person with bubonic plague’, a derivative of the adjective kužen ‘pestilential’, from kuga ‘(bubonic) plague’.

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