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Czech surnames

Pátek: what the name means

Pátek means “Friday”.

In January 2017, 2,387 people in Czechia were named Pátek or Pátková (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 Patek.

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 Pátek mean?

Pátek means “Friday”.

How many people are called Pátek in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 2,387 people in Czechia were named Pátek or Pátková, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Pátek most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (282), Chotěboř (136), Havlíčkův Brod (118).

Sources

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