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Lorenc: what the name means

Lorenc: from the Latin first name Laurentius (Lawrence), Czech Vavřinec.

In January 2017, 3,671 people in Czechia were named Lorenc or Lorencová (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 Lorenc mean?

Lorenc: from the Latin first name Laurentius (Lawrence), Czech Vavřinec.

How many people are called Lorenc in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 3,671 people in Czechia were named Lorenc or Lorencová, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Lorenc most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (355), Brno (133), Polička (97).

Sources

  1. The meaning of Lorenc: 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)