Frequency: (223)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Czech and Slovak (Vodička): from a diminutive of Czech voda ‘water’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived by water, a nickname for a teetotaler or an ironical nickname for an innkeeper.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
