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Czech surnames

Havel: what the name means

Havel: from the first name Havel (Gall).

In January 2017, 8,182 people in Czechia were named Havel or Havlová (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 Havel mean?

Havel: from the first name Havel (Gall).

How many people are called Havel in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 8,182 people in Czechia were named Havel or Havlová, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Havel most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (1,146), Plzeň (238), České Budějovice (215).

Sources

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