Frequency: (274)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Polish or Czech: from German Ventzl, Fentzl, variants of Wenzel.
GIVEN NAMES: Czech and Slovak 4%. Jaroslav, Miroslav, Zdenek.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
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