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Czech surnames

Vašíček: what the name means

Vašíček: from a pet form of the first name Václav (Wenceslas).

In January 2017, 5,589 people in Czechia were named Vašíček or Vašíčková (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 Vasicek.

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 Vašíček mean?

Vašíček: from a pet form of the first name Václav (Wenceslas).

How many people are called Vašíček in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 5,589 people in Czechia were named Vašíček or Vašíčková, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Vašíček most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Brno (388), Praha (372), Ostrava (269).

Sources

  1. The meaning of Vašíček: 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)