Given name & surname
Zdenek
“a man from Sidon”
Zdenek is used as a given name and a surname. One Slavic interpretation is “a man from Sidon.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Slavic interpretation is “a man from Sidon.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Slavic.
Zdenek’s family of names
Zdenek has a feminine form in Zdenka. Zdenek has a related form in Zdenko. Zdenek has a related form in Zdencko.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 7
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Zdenek
- Zdenek SekaninaCzech-American astronomerborn 1936
- Zdenek WasserbauerCzech bishopborn 1966
- Zdenek RykrCzech artist (1900-1940)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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