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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech (Šístek) : from a noun derivative of the vocabulary word šest ‘six’. This is sometimes a house name, from a house on which the number 6 was prominently displayed. In addition, it is a nickname for someone with long hair that hung down and curled at the bottom, resembling the figure 6.

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