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The flak Surname

flak Name Meaning and History

  1. Polish: nickname from flak ‘bowel’, ‘gut’, also ‘rag’.
  2. German and Danish: according to Søndergaard, a topographic or field name, from Low German flak ‘swampy grassland’, ‘shallow water’.
  3. German: topographic name for someone who lived in flat terrain, from Middle High German vlak ‘flat’, or, according to Bahlow, a variant of Flake.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of flak Families in the US in 1920
Number of flak families
 6-10
 3-5
 1-2
 0
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