St. Joseph's Day (Den Svatého
Josefa), March 19
The Czech St. Joseph's Day is historically a
more subdued version of the Irish St. Patrick's Day and is celebrated
around the same time in March every year.
Josef
is one of the most common Czech first male
names. It used
to be extremely popular in the past. For example, the village
of Josefovice used to have at least one Josef living in
every one of its houses. The name is not on the top of
name popularity charts anymore, having given way to names
like Jakub, Adam, Tomáš, Matyáš, or Filip. Around 200,000 Czech
men are still named Josef though, and that makes it the
sixth most used Czech male name in general.
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