Spanish and Portuguese: from vaca ‘cow’ (Latin
vacca), probably applied as a metonymic occupational name for a
cowherd or as a nickname.Czech: pet form of the personal
name Václav (see Vacek).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Vaca
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Vaca census records
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