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Type Surname
Usage Polish
Meaning & History
1 Polish (Królik): from a diminutive of Polish król ‘king’ ( see Krol ).2 Polish: nickname from królik ‘rabbit’. This originated as an attempted calque on Low German dialect Kuniklīn ‘rabbit’, being misinterpreted as a diminutive of König, although in fact it is from the unrelated Latin word cuniculus.3 Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): ornamental name from Russian and Yiddish krolik ‘rabbit’ (see 2 above).