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Zapletal: what the name means

Zapletal means “he got entangled”: a man caught up in a scrape.

In January 2017, 7,232 people in Czechia were named Zapletal or Zapletalová (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 Zapletal mean?

Zapletal means “he got entangled”: a man caught up in a scrape.

How many people are called Zapletal in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 7,232 people in Czechia were named Zapletal or Zapletalová, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Zapletal most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Olomouc (560), Prostějov (531), Kroměříž (472).

Sources

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