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Czech surnames

Ševčík: what the name means

Ševčík means “little shoemaker”.

In January 2017, 11,063 people in Czechia were named Ševčík or Ševčíková (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 Sevcik.

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 Ševčík mean?

Ševčík means “little shoemaker”.

How many people are called Ševčík in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 11,063 people in Czechia were named Ševčík or Ševčíková, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Ševčík most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (755), Brno (723), Blansko (678).

Sources

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