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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech (Pašek) and Polish (Paszek) : from a pet form of the personal name Pavel or Paweł, respectively the Czech and Polish forms of Paul.
  • Polish : nickname from pasek ‘little belt’, ‘girdle’, presumably applied to someone who wore a distinctive girdle.

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