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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech (Smrekář) and Slovak (Smrek) : occupational or topographic name for someone who worked or lived in a spruce forest, from an agent noun derivative of the dialect word smrek ‘spruce’ (standard Czech smrk).
  • Slovenian : topographic name derived from smreka ‘spruce fir’, probably denoting someone who lived in a place where spruces grew.

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