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Czech surnames

Vaculík: what the name means

Vaculík: from the first name Václav (Wenceslas).

In January 2017, 3,494 people in Czechia were named Vaculík or Vaculíková (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 Vaculik.

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 Vaculík mean?

Vaculík: from the first name Václav (Wenceslas).

How many people are called Vaculík in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 3,494 people in Czechia were named Vaculík or Vaculíková, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Vaculík most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Uherské Hradiště (269), Vsetín (239), Zlín (230).

Sources

  1. The meaning of Vaculík: 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)