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Kudrna: what the name means

Kudrna means “a curl”: originally a nickname.

In January 2017, 2,888 people in Czechia were named Kudrna or Kudrnová (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.

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Questions

What does the surname Kudrna mean?

Kudrna means “a curl”: originally a nickname.

How many people are called Kudrna in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 2,888 people in Czechia were named Kudrna or Kudrnová, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Kudrna most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (509), Hradec Králové (112), Pardubice (96).

Sources

  1. The meaning of Kudrna: en.wikipedia.org
  2. Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic: surname counts by area, January 2017 (archived; the ministry no longer publishes them)