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Czech surnames

Studený: what the name means

Studený means “cold”.

In January 2017, 2,604 people in Czechia were named Studený or Studená (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 Studeny.

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 Studený mean?

Studený means “cold”.

How many people are called Studený in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 2,604 people in Czechia were named Studený or Studená, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Studený most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (212), Olomouc (145), Brno (137).

Sources

  1. The meaning of Studený: cs.wiktionary.org
  2. Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic: surname counts by area, January 2017 (archived; the ministry no longer publishes them)