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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish (also Łysko) : nickname from a derivative of łysek ‘bald man’ or ‘bald-faced animal’.
  • Polish and Ukrainian : nickname for a cunning person, from lis ‘fox’.
  • Ukrainian : nickname from lysyj ‘bald’ + the noun suffix -ko.

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