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Czech surnames

Večeřa: what the name means

Večeřa means “supper”.

In January 2017, 4,558 people in Czechia were named Večeřa or Večeřová (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 Vecera.

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 Večeřa mean?

Večeřa means “supper”.

How many people are called Večeřa in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 4,558 people in Czechia were named Večeřa or Večeřová, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Večeřa most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Brno (310), Třebíč (265), Olomouc (264).

Sources

  1. The meaning of Večeřa: 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)