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Czech surnames

Smutný: what the name means

Smutný: sad.

In January 2017, 3,320 people in Czechia were named Smutný or Smutná (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 Smutny.

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 Smutný mean?

Smutný: sad.

How many people are called Smutný in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 3,320 people in Czechia were named Smutný or Smutná, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Smutný most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (320), Brno (296), Rosice (135).

Sources

  1. The meaning of Smutný: 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)