First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.
Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.
Last name origin & meaning:
Jewish (from Poland), Polish, Ukrainian, Belorussian, or Czech: from Polish aksamit ‘velvet’ or a cognate word in Czech, Ukrainian, Russian, or Belorussian. The etymology is clear, but not the application or ethnic origin.