About czech names
Feminine surnames take ová without exception here, so "Alžběta Němcová" and "Světlana Kadlecová" read as women before you reach the first name, while "Jan Jelínek" keeps the masculine base form. That gendered grammar is worth preserving in your manuscript, since a married couple will never share an identical surname. Natural fits for Prague mysteries, Bohemian historical fiction, and Cold War spy stories.
How czech names are built
Czech names use gender-split given and surname banks: 185 male and 190 female given names paired with 175 male and 276 female surnames, so both parts agree in gender. Each result is a given-plus-surname pair, such as Teodor Chromy and Bohuchval Havlíček for men, Karolina Císařová and Dagmarka Horáková for women.
Teodor Chromy
Teodor (given, male bank) + Chromy (surname, male bank)
Karolina Císařová
Karolina (given, female bank) + Císařová (surname, female bank)
Bohuchval Havlíček
Bohuchval (given, male bank) + Havlíček (surname, male bank)
Naming notes
The female surname bank (276) is larger than the male one (175). Female surnames carry the -ová ending (Císařová, Horáková) and given names and surnames carry háček diacritics č, š, ř and ž, as stored in the banks. The four-bank split keeps each surname drawn from the bank matching the chosen given gender.
Questions about czech names
- Why are the male and female surname banks different sizes?
- The female surname bank holds 276 entries against the male bank's 175; female surnames such as Císařová and Horáková carry the -ová ending and are kept in a separate bank.
- What are the marks above letters like č and ř?
- Háček and related Czech diacritics, kept in surnames like Havlíček and the ř in Císařová as stored in the banks.
- Do the parts agree in gender?
- Yes. A male given name draws a male-bank surname and a female given name a female-bank surname, so the pair agrees.