The dvorak Surname
dvorak Name Meaning and History
Czech (Dvorák): status name for a rich farmer, one who
owned a manor house, from Czech dvur ‘manor’, ‘estate’, or
in some cases an occupational name for someone who worked at a manor
house rather than on the land. Compare Sedlak. In Moravia the
term denoted a freeholder subject only to the king. This is the fourth
most common surname in the Czech lands.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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