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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech and Slovak (Sviták) : from a pet form of any of various traditional Slavic personal names containing the Old Slavic element svat ‘holy’, e.g. Svatoslav, Svatopluk, Svatomir (see Svatek).
  • Czech and Slovak (Sviták) : habitational name for someone from Svitavy.

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