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Czech surnames

Šulc: what the name means

Šulc: village headman (from German Schultz).

In January 2017, 7,703 people in Czechia were named Šulc or Šulcová (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 Sulc.

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 Šulc mean?

Šulc: village headman (from German Schultz).

How many people are called Šulc in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 7,703 people in Czechia were named Šulc or Šulcová, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Šulc most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (1,172), Mladá Boleslav (367), Liberec (244).

Sources

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