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Czech surnames

Zima: what the name means

Zima: winter.

In January 2017, 2,985 people in Czechia were named Zima or Zimová (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 Zima mean?

Zima: winter.

How many people are called Zima in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 2,985 people in Czechia were named Zima or Zimová, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Zima most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (533), Černošice (106), Hradec Králové (82).

Sources

  1. The meaning of Zima: 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)