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Czech surnames

Pražák: what the name means

Pražák: Praguer — a man from Prague.

In January 2017, 3,626 people in Czechia were named Pražák or Pražáková (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 Prazak.

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 Pražák mean?

Pražák: Praguer — a man from Prague.

How many people are called Pražák in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 3,626 people in Czechia were named Pražák or Pražáková, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Pražák most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (457), Hradec Králové (225), České Budějovice (151).

Sources

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