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Czech surnames

Kašpar: what the name means

Kašpar: from the first name Kašpar (Caspar), one of the Three Kings.

In January 2017, 9,470 people in Czechia were named Kašpar or Kašparová (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 Kaspar.

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 Kašpar mean?

Kašpar: from the first name Kašpar (Caspar), one of the Three Kings.

How many people are called Kašpar in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 9,470 people in Czechia were named Kašpar or Kašparová, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Kašpar most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (979), Šumperk (402), Hradec Králové (361).

Sources

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