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Czech surnames

Minařík: what the name means

Minařík: from mlynařík, “little miller” — or perhaps the long-tailed tit, also mlynařík.

In January 2017, 4,438 people in Czechia were named Minařík or Minaříková (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 Minarik.

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 Minařík mean?

Minařík: from mlynařík, “little miller” — or perhaps the long-tailed tit, also mlynařík.

How many people are called Minařík in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 4,438 people in Czechia were named Minařík or Minaříková, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Minařík most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (360), Zlín (267), Brno (217).

Sources

  1. The meaning of Minařík: 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)