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Czech surnames

Bláha: what the name means

Bláha: from blaho, “bliss, well-being”.

In January 2017, 11,279 people in Czechia were named Bláha or Bláhová (the women’s form).

Where the name was most common in 2017

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

In America the name was often written without the Czech accents, so family papers may say Blaha.

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 Bláha mean?

Bláha: from blaho, “bliss, well-being”.

How many people are called Bláha in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 11,279 people in Czechia were named Bláha or Bláhová, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Bláha most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (1,430), České Budějovice (402), Plzeň (374).

Sources

  1. Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic: surname counts by area, January 2017 (archived; the ministry no longer publishes them)