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Czech surnames

Klíma: what the name means

Klíma: from the first name Klement.

In January 2017, 8,035 people in Czechia were named Klíma or Klímová (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 Klima.

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 Klíma mean?

Klíma: from the first name Klement.

How many people are called Klíma in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 8,035 people in Czechia were named Klíma or Klímová, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Klíma most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (1,024), Brno (461), České Budějovice (364).

Sources

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