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Czech surnames

Mráz: what the name means

Mráz means “frost”.

In January 2017, 5,261 people in Czechia were named Mráz or Mrázová (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 Mraz.

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 Mráz mean?

Mráz means “frost”.

How many people are called Mráz in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 5,261 people in Czechia were named Mráz or Mrázová, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Mráz most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (611), České Budějovice (217), Prachatice (217).

Sources

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