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Czech surnames

Vorel: what the name means

Vorel means “eagle”.

In January 2017, 2,227 people in Czechia were named Vorel or Vorlová (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 Vorel mean?

Vorel means “eagle”.

How many people are called Vorel in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 2,227 people in Czechia were named Vorel or Vorlová, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Vorel most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (377), Černošice (75), Brno (62).

Sources

  1. The meaning of Vorel: 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)