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Czech surnames

Böhm: what the name means

Böhm: Bohemian, Czech — the German word for a Czech.

In January 2017, 3,378 people in Czechia were named Böhm or Böhmová (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 Böhm mean?

Böhm: Bohemian, Czech — the German word for a Czech.

How many people are called Böhm in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 3,378 people in Czechia were named Böhm or Böhmová, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Böhm most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (467), Brno (191), Plzeň (120).

Sources

  1. The meaning of Böhm: dvojka.rozhlas.cz
  2. Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic: surname counts by area, January 2017 (archived; the ministry no longer publishes them)