Family name origins & meanings
- Czech (Pánek) and Polish : from a pet form of the personal name Pankrać (see Pankratz) or Stipán (see Steven).
- Polish : nickname from a diminutive of Polish pan ‘master’, used either affectionately, in the sense ‘little master’, or contemptuously, in the sense ‘lordling’.
- Polish : from a pet form of the personal name Panas, a vernacular form of Atanazy, a derivative of Greek Athanasios (see Athanas).