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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech and Ukrainian : from a derivative of the old Slavic personal name Pelhřim.
  • Czech : nickname for someone who lived in a slum, Czech pelech.
  • Ukrainian : nickname from Ukrainian pelekh ‘tuft of hair’, probably in the transferred sense ‘old man’.

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