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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish and eastern Slavic : nickname from korsak ‘steppe fox’, a Turkish loanword in various Slavic languages.
  • Belorussian (Kóršak) : nickname for someone thought to resemble a hawk, from kóršak ‘kite’.

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