Procházka

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/proxaːska/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Procházka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country, where it is the 53rd most common surname. Recorded meaning: From procházet.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 672(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 924K
  • SKSlovakia1 in 7.1K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Czechia (measured from records)

15,930 people

Sources
199 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 672 (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Prochazka in US United States.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From procházet.

Sources 1

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Procházka counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Procházka is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia#5315,9301 in 67216KProcházka71
SK Slovakia#6717681 in 7.1K768Procházka24
US United States—3601 in 924K810Prochazka199
CH Switzerland—441 in 191K44Procházka9
AR Argentina—351 in 1.3M35——
SE Sweden—301 in 340K30—3
FI Finland—211 in 265K21——

15,930 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: MVČR — living population register 2017; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Procházka is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Prochazka

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Peru, United States, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Prochazka

  • Czech surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, United States, Slovakia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Czech, Polish, Slovak

    Also written Prochazka, Prochăzka

  • Croatian surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Prochazka

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium

    Also written Prochazka

  • Russian surname14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, United States

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Прохазка, Prochaska, Prokhazka, Prochazka, Прочазка

17 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Rudolf Procházka, b. 1864Antonín Procházka, b. 1882Zdeněk Procházka, b. 1928Jan Procházka, b. 1929František Procházka, b. 1962Martin Procházka, b. 1972Radoslav Procházka, b. 1972Libor Procházka, b. 1974Václav Procházka, b. 1984Jiří Procházka, b. 1992

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalVážený pane / paní Procházka,Dear Procházka, (English)
InformalVážený pane / paní Procházka,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 11 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Procházka
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—16K#12
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—16K#12
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—16K#13
SK SlovakiaJÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census)1995768—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202413#50,156

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Procházka mean, and where does it come from?
From procházet. Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Procházka?
A machine transcription gives /proxaːska/ (IPA) for Czech.
In which country does Procházka have the most bearers?
In Czechia, the national register counted about 16 thousand people named Procházka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled procházka.
Where is Procházka most common?
Procházka is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 672 people carrying it.
How common is the name Procházka?
In Czechia, the national register counted 15,930 people named Procházka, about 1 in 672 residents.
How common is Procházka compared with other names?
In Czechia, Procházka is the 53rd most common surname of 114,573 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Procházka” — the 53rd most common surname in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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