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Czech surnames

Seidl: what the name means

Seidl: from the German first name Siegfried.

In January 2017, 3,643 people in Czechia were named Seidl or Seidlová (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 Seidl mean?

Seidl: from the German first name Siegfried.

How many people are called Seidl in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 3,643 people in Czechia were named Seidl or Seidlová, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Seidl most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (634), Brno (102), Pardubice (93).

Sources

  1. The meaning of Seidl: 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)