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Czech surnames

Pospíchal: what the name means

Pospíchal means “he hurried”.

In January 2017, 2,798 people in Czechia were named Pospíchal or Pospíchalová (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 Pospichal.

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 Pospíchal mean?

Pospíchal means “he hurried”.

How many people are called Pospíchal in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 2,798 people in Czechia were named Pospíchal or Pospíchalová, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Pospíchal most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (277), Jihlava (269), Brno (164).

Sources

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