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Vojta: what the name means

Vojta: from Vojta, a pet form of the first name Vojtěch (Adalbert).

In January 2017, 2,967 people in Czechia were named Vojta or Vojtová (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 Vojta mean?

Vojta: from Vojta, a pet form of the first name Vojtěch (Adalbert).

How many people are called Vojta in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 2,967 people in Czechia were named Vojta or Vojtová, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Vojta most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (372), Brno (152), České Budějovice (94).

Sources

  1. The meaning of Vojta: cs.wikipedia.org
  2. Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic: surname counts by area, January 2017 (archived; the ministry no longer publishes them)