The farkas Surname
farkas Name Meaning and History
- Hungarian: from the old secular personal name (later also ecclesiastical name) Farkas.
- Hungarian: nickname from farkas ‘wolf’.
- Slovenian, Czech, and Slovak (Farkaš): nickname from Old Slavic farkaš ‘wolf’, a word of Hungarian origin.
- Jewish (from Hungary): translation of the Yiddish personal name Volf meaning ‘wolf’, or else an ornamental adoption of the Hungarian word.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| 1st Lt. Daniel Farkas of Brooklyn, N.Y., died on July 4, 2008 |
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