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Czech surnames

Mucha: what the name means

Mucha: fly — a dialect word for the insect.

In January 2017, 3,572 people in Czechia were named Mucha or Muchová (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 Mucha mean?

Mucha: fly — a dialect word for the insect.

How many people are called Mucha in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 3,572 people in Czechia were named Mucha or Muchová, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Mucha most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (334), Brno (258), Jablunkov (107).

Sources

  1. The meaning of Mucha: 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)