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Stejskal: what the name means

Stejskal means “he longed, grieved”: a homesick man.

In January 2017, 9,353 people in Czechia were named Stejskal or Stejskalová (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 Stejskal mean?

Stejskal means “he longed, grieved”: a homesick man.

How many people are called Stejskal in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 9,353 people in Czechia were named Stejskal or Stejskalová, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Stejskal most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (987), Brno (491), Olomouc (325).

Sources

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