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Czech surnames

Jansa: what the name means

Jansa: from the first name Jan (John).

In January 2017, 2,590 people in Czechia were named Jansa or Jansová (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 Jansa mean?

Jansa: from the first name Jan (John).

How many people are called Jansa in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 2,590 people in Czechia were named Jansa or Jansová, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Jansa most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (272), Náchod (115), Ústí nad Orlicí (108).

Sources

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