Vojtěch

Vojtěch (Czech pronunciation: Vojtěch^ⓘ) or Vojtech is a, respectively, Czech and Slovak given name of Slavic origin. It is composed of two parts: voj – "troops"/"war(rior)" and těch – "consolator"/"rejoicing man". So, the name could be interpreted either as "consolator of troops" or "man rejoicing in a battle, warlike man". The name day is 23 April.

The name Vojtěch is since the Early Middle Ages also perceived as the equivalent of Germanic name Adalbert ("noble bright"), due to the saint Adalbert of Prague (Czech: svatý Vojtěch; Polish: święty Wojciech), however, the two names have no linguistic relationship with each other. Via the same artificial process have been the names Vojtěch/Adalbert assigned to Hungarian name Béla (like "noble").

Use in Czech

The proper Czech spelling of the name is 'Vojtěch', pronounced [ˈvojcɛx]. The name contains two Czech orthography elements. The first is the caron, which is a form of a diacritical mark, over the letter 'e'. The caron modifies the pronunciation of the letter 't' immediately preceding the ě. The second is a digraph at the end of the name: the last two letters 'ch' in fact form a single phoneme (pronounced as a voiceless velar fricative [x]). (The pair 'ch' is the only formal digraph in the Czech alphabet.)

A common shorter version of the name is Vojta, pronounced [ˈvojta]. According to a 2009 survey of the Czech Ministry of Interior, there were over 41 thousand men with the first name Vojtěch in the Czech Republic, which made it the 28th most used name on Czech territory.^[1]

Use in Slovak

The name is spelled without the caron above the letter e.

Foreign variants

Polish: Wojciech, Wojtas, Wojtasek, Wojtak, Wojtek, Wojtczak, Wojcik, Wojcicki, Wojt, Wojteczek, Wojtuś.
Serbian: Воjтех / Vojteh
Croatian: Vojtjeh
German: Woitke, Witke, Voitke, Voytke, Woytke, Vogtke, Wogtke, Woetke, Wötke, Wotke, Woyzeck, Wozzeck
American: Watke

Given name

Saint Adalbert of Prague (~956–997), Bishop of Prague, the first recorded user of this name
Vojtěch Adam (born 1950), Czech politician
Vojtech Alexander (1857–1916), Slovak radiologist
Vojta Beneš (1878–1951), Czechoslovak educator, political leader and brother of Edvard Beneš
Vojtěch Dobiáš (born 2000), Czech ice hockey player
Vojtěch Filip (born 1955), Czech politician
Alberto Vojtěch Frič (1882–1944), Czech botanist and ethnographer
Vojtěch Jarník (1897–1970), Czech mathematician
Vojtěch Jasný (1925–2019), Czech director
Vojtěch Kubašta (1914-1992), Czech artist and illustrator
Vojtěch Machek (born 1990), Czech footballer
Vojtech Milošovič (born 1992), Czech footballer
Vojtěch Náprstek (1826–1894), Czech journalist
Vojtech Plat (born 1994), Czech chess grandmaster
Vojtěch Preissig (1873–1944), Czech type designer
Vojtěch Šafařík (1829–1902), Czech chemist
Vojtech Tuka (1880–1946), Slovak prime minister
Vojtech Zamarovský (1919–2006), Slovak writer
Vojtěch Matyáš Jírovec (Adalbert Gyrowetz) (1763–1850) Bohemian composer.

Surname

Adam Vojtěch, Czech singer and minister of health
Adolf Vojta-Jurný, Czech actor
Alexandr Vojta, Czech director of documents
Billy Vojtek (born 1943), Australian soccer player
Elmer Voight (born Elemír Vojtko), American golfer of Slovak origin and father of actor Jon Voight
Hermína Vojtová, Czech actress
Ivan Vojtek, Slovak actor
Jaroslav Vojta (1888–1970), Czech actor
Jaroslav Vojtek, Slovak director
Jiří Vojta, Czech actor
Josef Vojtek, Czech musician
Josef Vojtech (1925–?), Austrian weightlifter
Linda Vojtová (born 1985), Czech model
Martin Vojtek (born 1975), Czech ice hockey player
Roman Vojtek, Czech actor
Václav Vojta (1917–2000), Czech physician (inventor of the Vojta method)

References

^ Statistical records of the Ministry of Interior (in Czech)

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[1] Statistical records of the Ministry of Interior (in Czech)

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