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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Czech (Valášek): from Moravian Valach, an ethnic name for a Wallachian (a member of a Carpathian shepherd people), from a Slavic word meaning originally ‘foreigner’, ‘speaker of a Romance language’, hence ‘Romanian’.
  2. Czech (Valášek): nickname for an idle person, from valet se ‘to wallow’.
  3. Czech (Valášek): nickname from valach ‘gelding’.