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Czech surnames

Tománek: what the name means

Tománek: from the first name Tomáš (Thomas).

In January 2017, 3,215 people in Czechia were named Tománek or Tománková (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 Tomanek.

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 Tománek mean?

Tománek: from the first name Tomáš (Thomas).

How many people are called Tománek in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 3,215 people in Czechia were named Tománek or Tománková, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Tománek most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (273), Uherské Hradiště (220), Ostrava (214).

Sources

  1. The meaning of Tománek: dvojka.rozhlas.cz
  2. Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic: surname counts by area, January 2017 (archived; the ministry no longer publishes them)