Flikier Family Name Origin
Origin of the name "Flikier"
Chalo (Haim) Flikier suggests that the origin of the name flikier comes from the profession "plucker".
It is because the family spoke Yiddish. In Yiddish the word "פליקער" (fliker) means "plucker", and the Yiddish verb "פליקן" (fliken) means "to pluck".
Also, a plucker was a Jewish profession.
It probably means that some ancestor of the family (from whom the profession was adopted as a family name) was a plucker of feathers.
Other examples of such professions that became family names are: Shuster (shoemaker), Schneider (tailor), Goldstein (goldsmith).
Why "Flikier" and not "Fliker"?
We do know why the name in latin letters includes an extra "i" (Flikier instead of Fliker).
But the 2 oldest document we have found, already have the name written as "Flikier":
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The death certificate of Zelman-Icek Flikier, from 1859:
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The birth certificate of Lejzor Flikier, from 1861:
Harkavi Dictionary
Uriel Weinreich Dictionary
