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Czech surnames

Hrbek: what the name means

Hrbek means “little hump”.

In January 2017, 2,447 people in Czechia were named Hrbek or Hrbková (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 Hrbek mean?

Hrbek means “little hump”.

How many people are called Hrbek in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 2,447 people in Czechia were named Hrbek or Hrbková, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Hrbek most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (352), Brno (77), Rakovník (66).

Sources

  1. The meaning of Hrbek: 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)