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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech, Slovak, and Polish (Cha{l-}upa) : status name for a cottager, from chalupa, a term denoting a free peasant’s cottage with very little land attached to it. Compare Sedlak, Zahradnik.

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