Svoboda

At the 2020 census, 5,491 Americans bore the surname Svoboda — 6,023rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 54,400.

By the numbers

People: 5,491
Rank: 6,023rd
How common: 1 in 54,400
Per 100,000: 1.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Czech

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Svoboda described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 93.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Svoboda

Ludvík Svoboda (1895–1979)Czechoslovak general and politician
Karel Svoboda (1938–2007)Czech composer
Michael Svoboda (born 1998)Austrian association football player
David Svoboda (born 1985)Czech modern pentathlete
František Svoboda (1906–1948)Czech footballer
Petr Svoboda (born 1966)Czech ice hockey player, born 1966
Petr Svoboda (born 1984)Czech athlete
Zdeněk Svoboda (born 1972)former professional footballer, born 20 May 1972 in Brno, Czechoslovakia

People named Svoboda with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.