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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech (Sedlák) : status name from Czech sedlák ‘peasant’, ‘farmer’. A sedlák was a comparatively rich farmer, with more land than a zahradník ‘smallholder’, ‘truck farmer’ (see Zahradnik) or a chalupník ‘cottager’ (see Chalupa).

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