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Czech surnames

Vondráček: what the name means

Vondráček: from Vondra, a pet form of the first name Ondřej (Andrew).

In January 2017, 4,835 people in Czechia were named Vondráček or Vondráčková (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 Vondracek.

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 Vondráček mean?

Vondráček: from Vondra, a pet form of the first name Ondřej (Andrew).

How many people are called Vondráček in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 4,835 people in Czechia were named Vondráček or Vondráčková, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Vondráček most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (745), Liberec (147), Kolín (138).

Sources

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