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Czech surnames

Chaloupka: what the name means

Chaloupka means “little cottage”: a cottager.

In January 2017, 5,316 people in Czechia were named Chaloupka or Chaloupková (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 Chaloupka mean?

Chaloupka means “little cottage”: a cottager.

How many people are called Chaloupka in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 5,316 people in Czechia were named Chaloupka or Chaloupková, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Chaloupka most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (687), Brno (264), Kladno (196).

Sources

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