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Balcar: what the name means

Balcar: from the first name Baltazar (Balthazar).

In January 2017, 2,474 people in Czechia were named Balcar or Balcarová (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 Balcar mean?

Balcar: from the first name Baltazar (Balthazar).

How many people are called Balcar in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 2,474 people in Czechia were named Balcar or Balcarová, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Balcar most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Náchod (312), Praha (216), Hradec Králové (144).

Sources

  1. The meaning of Balcar: 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)