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Question:It's my friend's last name, and she's currently away at college, so I can't ask her...

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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: It's my friend's last name, and she's currently away at college, so I can't ask her...

Does anyone know?

The 1880 census has 11. 1 born in Hungary, 2 born in Illinois and 8 born in Bohemia.

That is the thing about surnames. The same surname can come from more than one nationality and not everyone with the same surname are necessarily related or shares ancestors, even those of the same national origin.

When it comes to Slavic names, there have been so many boundary changes in those countries so the same surnames definitely cross national lines.

It sounds Hungarian or Finnish to me, although it could be Lithuanian - http://www.geocities.com/cjzemaitis@sbcg...