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Homola: what the name means

Homola: cone, sugarloaf — from a place called Homole or a cone-shaped hill.

In January 2017, 3,178 people in Czechia were named Homola or Homolová (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 Homola mean?

Homola: cone, sugarloaf — from a place called Homole or a cone-shaped hill.

How many people are called Homola in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 3,178 people in Czechia were named Homola or Homolová, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Homola most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Ostrava (305), Praha (240), Velké Meziříčí (179).

Sources

  1. The meaning of Homola: 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)