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Czech surnames

Hašek: what the name means

Hašek: from a pet form of the first name Haštal.

In January 2017, 2,824 people in Czechia were named Hašek or Hašková (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 Hasek.

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 Hašek mean?

Hašek: from a pet form of the first name Haštal.

How many people are called Hašek in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 2,824 people in Czechia were named Hašek or Hašková, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Hašek most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (410), Benešov (113), Kladno (107).

Sources

  1. The meaning of Hašek: en.wiktionary.org
  2. Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic: surname counts by area, January 2017 (archived; the ministry no longer publishes them)