Kurnik Family History
Kurnik Name Meaning
Polish and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): occupational name for dealer in poultry from Polish Belorussian and Ukrainian kura ‘hen’ + the Slavic occupational suffix -nik. Slovenian: from a derivative of kuriti ‘to make a fire’ applied as a nickname or a topographic name for someone who lived on a land that had been cleared by fire.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022