CZECH-AMERICAN NAMES (nameset 14)
0.9% of American population (Czech and Slovak combined)
Czech spelling is even more challenging than Polish, if that's possible. Some of the changes that I've made to "Americanize" the names:
- Changing "č"and "š" to "ch" and "sh" in some names to reflect pronunciation;
- Changing terminal -c in certain names to -cz to reflect pronunciation (actually, the pronunciation is closer to -ts, but -cz is more common in American names);
- Changing Sv- at the beginning of some names to Sw- to reflect pronunciation;
- Elimination of feminine -ova name endings, as well as -ov endings which appear to have been the result of a mistaken attempt at back-forming masculine names (that's not how it's done in Czech);
- Elimination of German names and, where possible, Hungarian and Polish names.
Some of the sources that I used include:
Some prominent Czech-American and Slovak-American ballplayers include:
- Andy Benes
- Ron Swoboda
- Jason Varitek
- Al Hrabosky (he might have been the "Mad Hungarian," but his name is Czech)
- Kent Hrbek
14 Czech-American first names.txt
14 Czech-American names.txt