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Dvořáček: what the name means

Dvořáček means “little Dvořák”: a small farmer of a manor estate.

In January 2017, 6,540 people in Czechia were named Dvořáček or Dvořáčková (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 Dvoracek.

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 Dvořáček mean?

Dvořáček means “little Dvořák”: a small farmer of a manor estate.

How many people are called Dvořáček in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 6,540 people in Czechia were named Dvořáček or Dvořáčková, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Dvořáček most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (539), Brno (493), Boskovice (316).

Sources

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