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Andrle: what the name means

Andrle means “little Andreas”: a German pet form of the first name Andreas (Andrew).

In January 2017, 2,440 people in Czechia were named Andrle or Andrlová (the women’s form).

Where the name was most common in 2017

Areas are the Interior Ministry’s; numbers under 5 are not shown.

To find the family in the old parish books, you need the village they came from.

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Questions

What does the surname Andrle mean?

Andrle means “little Andreas”: a German pet form of the first name Andreas (Andrew).

How many people are called Andrle in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 2,440 people in Czechia were named Andrle or Andrlová, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Andrle most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (241), Hradec Králové (71), Chrudim (70).

Sources

  1. The meaning of Andrle: en.wikipedia.org
  2. Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic: surname counts by area, January 2017 (archived; the ministry no longer publishes them)