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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech : from (v)otava, literally ‘aftermath’, i.e. a second crop of grass from the same field, after a first crop has been mown in early summer. As a surname, this may be a topographic name for someone who lived by a field that yielded two crops a year, or an anecdotal nickname.

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