Blatnik Family History

Slovenian: topographic name for a person from a muddy or miry place or a swamp derived from blato ‘mud mire’ or dialect blata ‘swamp’. It is also an old habitational name for someone from any of the villages called Blato, Blate, or Blatno named with the same words.

Slovenian: possibly also a nickname from blatnik ‘pond lily (Nuphar luteum)’. Czech (Blatník): topographic name from blata ‘moorland’ (from bláto ‘mud’) or a habitational name from Blatná (South Bohemia) or Blatnice (Moravia) named with the same word.