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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Greek : patronymic from Vlachos ‘Aromanian’, also a nickname meaning ‘hillbilly’. The -akis ending is particularly associated with Crete, where there is no indigenous Aromanian population; so the secondary, pejorative sense is probably more frequent in this instance.

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