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Czech surnames

Matoušek: what the name means

Matoušek: from the first name Matouš (Matthew).

In January 2017, 11,404 people in Czechia were named Matoušek or Matoušková (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 Matousek.

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 Matoušek mean?

Matoušek: from the first name Matouš (Matthew).

How many people are called Matoušek in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 11,404 people in Czechia were named Matoušek or Matoušková, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Matoušek most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (1,406), Brno (477), Prostějov (279).

Sources

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