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Czech surnames

Synek: what the name means

Synek means “little son”.

In January 2017, 2,711 people in Czechia were named Synek or Synková (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 Synek mean?

Synek means “little son”.

How many people are called Synek in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 2,711 people in Czechia were named Synek or Synková, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Synek most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (300), Brno (125), Hradec Králové (100).

Sources

  1. The meaning of Synek: 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)