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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech and Slovak (Dudík) and Polish (Dudzik) : from a diminutive of Duda.
  • Ukrainian : either a nickname from Ukrainian dudyk ‘small stone found in clay’, or an occupational name for a player on a reed pipe, from dudyty ‘to play the reed pipe’.

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