Popek Family History
Popek Name Meaning
Czech Polish and Croatian: nickname from a diminutive of pop ‘priest (of the Orthodox or Greek Catholic Church)’; see Pop Slovenian and Croatian: nickname from Slovenian and dialectal Croatian popek ‘bud gemma’ also ‘navel belly button’. Alternatively perhaps of the same origin as 1 above.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022