Given name
Zbyněk
“one who takes away anger”
Zbyněk is a masculine given name. It is used in Czech.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Zbyněk goes back to a word meaning “one who takes away anger.”
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Zbyněk’s family of names
In Czech usage, Zbyněk has a diminutive in Zbynďa. In Czech usage, Zbyněk has a feminine form in Zbyňka. In Czech usage, Zbyněk has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Zbigniew.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Zbyněk
- Zbyněk MichálekCzech ice hockey playerborn 1982
- Zbyněk BrynychCzech director (1927–1995)
- Zbyněk IrglCzech ice hockey playerborn 1980
- Zbyněk HejdaCzech poet and translator (1930–2013)
- Zbyněk HráčekCzech chess playerborn 1970
- Zbyněk PospěchCzech football playerborn 1982
- Zbyněk StanjuraCzech politician and entrepreneurborn 1964
- Zbyněk HubačCzechoslovak ski jumperborn 1940
- Zbyněk Berka of DubáCzech cardinal1551–1606
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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