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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech (Masařík and Slovak) : occupational name from masař ‘butcher’.
  • Tomáš Masaryk (1850–1937) was the first president of the Czechoslovak Republic (1918–35). His son Jan Masaryk (1886–1948) was foreign minister (1941–48), who disappeared in mysterious circumstances at the time of the Communist takeover.

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