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Czech surnames

Sojka: what the name means

Sojka: jay.

In January 2017, 3,219 people in Czechia were named Sojka or Sojková (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 Sojka mean?

Sojka: jay.

How many people are called Sojka in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 3,219 people in Czechia were named Sojka or Sojková, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Sojka most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (363), Brno (180), Ostrava (134).

Sources

  1. The meaning of Sojka: 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)