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Czech surnames

Ondráček: what the name means

Ondráček: from Ondra, a pet form of the first name Ondřej (Andrew).

In January 2017, 4,756 people in Czechia were named Ondráček or Ondráčková (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 Ondracek.

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 Ondráček mean?

Ondráček: from Ondra, a pet form of the first name Ondřej (Andrew).

How many people are called Ondráček in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 4,756 people in Czechia were named Ondráček or Ondráčková, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Ondráček most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Brno (441), Praha (341), Třebíč (220).

Sources

  1. The meaning of Ondráček: 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)