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Czech surnames

Zahradník: what the name means

Zahradník means “gardener”.

In January 2017, 4,458 people in Czechia were named Zahradník or Zahradníková (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 Zahradnik.

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 Zahradník mean?

Zahradník means “gardener”.

How many people are called Zahradník in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 4,458 people in Czechia were named Zahradník or Zahradníková, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Zahradník most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (528), České Budějovice (132), Brno (132).

Sources

  1. Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic: surname counts by area, January 2017 (archived; the ministry no longer publishes them)