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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish (Leśniak) : occupational name for a woodman or forester, a derivative of les ‘forest’.
  • Altered spelling of Slovenian Lesnjak, topographic name from les ‘forest’, ‘bushes’, or of Lešnjak, nickname from an archaic spelling of lešnik ‘hazelnut’.

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