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Type Surname (from given name & from nickname)
Scripts Кука(Serbian)
Other Forms FormsKukac, Kukan
Meaning & History
Albanian: from the old personal name Kukë (definite form Kuka), which is most likely of South Slavic origin, a cognate of the names in 3 below.Albanian: nickname from Kukë (definite form Kuka), a regional variant of Kokë ‘head’.Slovak, Polish, Czech, Serbian, and Croatian: nickname derived from Slovak kukať, Polish kukać, Czech kukat, Croatian kukati ‘to cuckoo’ or, in some of these languages, from a homonymous verb meaning ‘to peep, to peer out’.German: nickname of Slavic origin (see 3 above).