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Czech surnames

Konečný: what the name means

Konečný means “the last one”: the house at the end of the village.

In January 2017, 13,623 people in Czechia were named Konečný or Konečná (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 Konecny.

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 Konečný mean?

Konečný means “the last one”: the house at the end of the village.

How many people are called Konečný in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 13,623 people in Czechia were named Konečný or Konečná, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Konečný most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Brno (1,078), Ostrava (785), Praha (687).

Sources

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