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Czech surnames

Prokop: what the name means

Prokop: from the first name Prokop (Procopius), the Czech saint.

In January 2017, 8,049 people in Czechia were named Prokop or Prokopová (the women’s form).

Where the name was most common in 2017

Areas are the Interior Ministry’s; numbers under 5 are not shown.

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 Prokop mean?

Prokop: from the first name Prokop (Procopius), the Czech saint.

How many people are called Prokop in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 8,049 people in Czechia were named Prokop or Prokopová, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Prokop most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (885), Brno (275), Ostrava (274).

Sources

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