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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech and Slovak : from a short form of Miloslav, Bohumil or some other personal name formed with Old Slavic mil ‘grace’, ‘mercy’.
  • Possibly an Americanized spelling of Hungarian Milotai or Milotay, a habitational name for someone from a village called Milota in Szatmár county in northeastern Hungary. The place name is of Slavic origin.

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