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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish : nickname for a person of a gloomy disposition, from Polish mroczek ‘small dark cloud’ (a diminutive of mrok ‘cloud’, also used in the sense ‘gloom’, ‘darkness’). This word also means ‘bat’, which could also lie behind the nickname.

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