Names distinctive to Czechia

The list of names unique to the Czech Republic*

Female forenames

NameUniqueness Prevalence rank
1. Lenka 74% 2.
2. Jana 23% 1.
3. Kateřina 100% 4.
4. Lucie 26% 3.
5. Jitka 95% 6.
6. Markéta 100% 8.
7. Zuzana 57% 7.
8. Alena 42% 5.
9. Barbora 77% 9.
10. Pavla 98% 10.
11. Kristýna 100% 11.
12. Eliška 100% 12.
13. Šárka 100% 14.
14. Věra 100% 15.
15. Klára 91% 17.
16. Radka 88% 16.
17. Iveta 66% 13.
18. Pavlína 100% 20.
19. Adéla 100% 22.
20. Jaroslava 96% 23.
21. Karolína 100% 24.
22. Katka 77% 26.
23. Jarmila 70% 28.
24. Zdeňka 100% 31.
25. Jiřina 100% 32.

Male forenames

NameUniqueness Prevalence rank
1. Petr 97% 1.
2. Jiří 100% 3.
3. Tomáš 93% 5.
4. Pavel 41% 2.
5. Michal 49% 4.
6. Jaroslav 84% 7.
7. František 95% 9.
8. Karel 51% 6.
9. Lukáš 87% 10.
10. Jakub 52% 8.
11. Václav 100% 12.
12. Zdeněk 100% 13.
13. Radek 83% 14.
14. Miroslav 42% 11.
15. Ondřej 100% 17.
16. Vladimír 91% 15.
17. Honza 94% 16.
18. Jiri 83% 18.
19. Antonín 100% 20.
20. Ladislav 67% 19.
21. Jirka 78% 22.
22. Libor 98% 23.
23. Vojtěch 100% 26.
24. Zdenek 84% 25.
25. Aleš 81% 24.

Surnames

NameUniqueness Prevalence rank
1. Svoboda 70% 2.
2. Novak 24% 1.
3. Novák 85% 5.
4. Novotny 56% 3.
5. Dvorak 58% 4.
6. Nováková 92% 8.
7. Prochazka 77% 6.
8. Cerny 61% 7.
9. Novakova 82% 9.
10. Novotný 93% 15.
11. Dvořák 100% 16.
12. Novotná 94% 19.
13. Vesely 66% 14.
14. Svobodová 100% 21.
15. Fiala 55% 10.
16. Svobodova 99% 22.
17. Kucera 55% 11.
18. Zeman 54% 13.
19. Horak 53% 12.
20. Dvořáková 100% 27.
21. Černý 94% 25.
22. Černá 100% 34.
23. Procházka 100% 35.
24. Kadlec 68% 23.
25. Hajek 57% 17.

Distinctive names in
the related** countries

CountrySimilarity
Slovakia 49%
Austria 19%
Germany 14%
Slovenia 13%
Croatia 12%
United States of America (the) 12%
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the) 11%
Ireland 10%
Australia 10%

*The rank of the unique name is the geometric average of the name uniqueness and the name prevalence in the respective country. Name uniqueness is measured only by the exact grapheme form (not taking into account transliterational equivalents or phonetic similarities).

** Country similarity is the correlation of the relative frequency of the names shared by two countries (as measured by cosine similarity).