Dictionary of Family Names in the Visegrad Countries
KMEŤO
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| Origin | of Slovak origin |
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| Type | Family name referring to the connection with the father or another ancestor by that name |
| Family name referring to an occupation, activity or social status |
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The name is derived from the Slovak common noun kmeť meaning ‘guide, a participant in a procession, courtier, a peasant with a homestead; lay juror; an old, experienced, respectable man, elder’ with the suffix -o and refers to the connection with the father or another ancestor by that name or an occupation. Variants: Kmeto, Kmeťó, Kmetyo, Kmetyó. |