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Kubíček: what the name means

Kubíček means “little Kuba”: from the first name Jakub (Jacob).

In January 2017, 8,334 people in Czechia were named Kubíček or Kubíčková (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 Kubicek.

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 Kubíček mean?

Kubíček means “little Kuba”: from the first name Jakub (Jacob).

How many people are called Kubíček in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 8,334 people in Czechia were named Kubíček or Kubíčková, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Kubíček most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (720), Šumperk (451), Brno (400).

Sources

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