Last name origins & meanings:
- Hungarian and Jewish (from Hungary): from vad ‘wild’,
hence a nickname for an unsophisticated person, or someone with crazy
ideas, alternatively an occupational name for a hunter.
- Americanized spelling of Hungarian and Hungarian Jewish
Vadász, from the vocabulary word vadász ‘hunter’,
from vad ‘game’ + ász (ész) occupational
suffix of Hungarian family names, hence an occupational name for a
hunter.
- Czech: from a pet form of the personal name
Vadislav, variant of Vladislav. In some cases the Czech
family name is a derivative of the Hungarian word vadász
‘hunter’, hence an occupational name for a hunter.
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