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Czech surnames

Mach: what the name means

Mach: from the first name Matěj (Matthias).

In January 2017, 10,742 people in Czechia were named Mach or Machová (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 Mach mean?

Mach: from the first name Matěj (Matthias).

How many people are called Mach in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 10,742 people in Czechia were named Mach or Machová, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Mach most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (1,131), Brno (283), České Budějovice (263).

Sources

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