Potocki Family History
Potocki Name Meaning
Polish and Jewish (from Poland); Croatian and Slovenian (Potočki): topographic name for someone who lived by a brook or stream derived from Polish Croatian and Slovenian potok ‘brook stream’ or a habitational name from any of various places called Potok named with the same word. In Poland this surname is also found among Rusyns (Lemkos). Compare Potoski and Potosky .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022