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Dufek: what the name means

Dufek: a misreading of the name Dušek: old script wrote “š” as a double long s.

In January 2017, 5,180 people in Czechia were named Dufek or Dufková (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 Dufek mean?

Dufek: a misreading of the name Dušek: old script wrote “š” as a double long s.

How many people are called Dufek in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 5,180 people in Czechia were named Dufek or Dufková, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Dufek most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (529), Brno (378), Mladá Boleslav (146).

Sources

  1. The meaning of Dufek: 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)