For Czech-American families · The Golden Piglet Find your family’s village

Czech surnames

Kohoutek: what the name means

Kohoutek: little rooster — perhaps for his temperament, or from a house sign.

In January 2017, 2,995 people in Czechia were named Kohoutek or Kohoutková (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.

More Czech surnames

Questions

What does the surname Kohoutek mean?

Kohoutek: little rooster — perhaps for his temperament, or from a house sign.

How many people are called Kohoutek in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 2,995 people in Czechia were named Kohoutek or Kohoutková, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Kohoutek most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (241), Pardubice (187), Brno (136).

Sources

  1. The meaning of Kohoutek: 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)