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Nečas: what the name means

Nečas means “bad weather”: in Haná dialect also “a good-for-nothing”.

In January 2017, 3,866 people in Czechia were named Nečas or Nečasová (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 Necas.

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 Nečas mean?

Nečas means “bad weather”: in Haná dialect also “a good-for-nothing”.

How many people are called Nečas in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 3,866 people in Czechia were named Nečas or Nečasová, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Nečas most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Brno (479), Blansko (448), Boskovice (242).

Sources

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