Vojtěch ( Czech pronunciation: ) 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

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("noble bright"), due to the saint Adalbert of Prague ( cs, svatý Vojtěch; pl, 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

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(like "noble").

Use in Czech

The proper Czech spelling of the name is 'Vojtěch', pronounced . The name contains two Czech orthography elements. The first is the caron, which is a form of a

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, 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 ). (The pair 'ch' is the only formal digraph in the

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.) A common shorter version of the name is Vojta, pronounced . 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.Statistical records of the Ministry of Interior

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: ''Vojteh'' * Croatian: ''Vojtjeh'' * Bulgarian: ''Vojtech'' * 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 (born 1925), 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 Vojtěch Preissig (31 July 1873 – 11 June 1944) was a Czech typographer, printmaker, designer, illustrator, painter and teacher. He studied in Prague at the School of Applied Industrial Art (in Friedrich Ohmann's Decorative Architecture wo ...

(1873–1944), Czech type designer *

Vojtěch Šafařík Vojtěch Šafařík (26 October 1829 in Újvidék, Bács-Bodrog County, Vojvodina, Kingdom of Hungary (1526–1867), Hungary (today Serbia) – 2 July 1902 in Prague, Bohemia) was a Czech chemist, specialising in inorganic chemistry. Šafařík was ...

(1829–1902), Czech chemist * Vojtech Tuka (1880–1946), Slovak prime minister * Vojtech Zamarovský (1919–2006), Slovak writer *

Vojtěch Matyáš Jírovec Vojtěch Matyáš Jírovec (Adalbert Gyrowetz) (20 February 1763 – 19 March 1850) was a Bohemian composer. He mainly wrote instrumental works, with a great production of string quartets and symphonies; his operas and singspiele numbered mo ...

(Adalbert Gyrowetz) (1763–1850) Bohemian composer.

Surname

* Adam Vojtěch, Czech singer and minister of health *

Adolf Vojta-Jurný Adolf (also spelt Adolph or Adolphe, Adolfo and when Latinised Adolphus) is a given name used in German-speaking countries, Scandinavia, the Netherlands and Flanders, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Latin America and to a lesser extent in vari ...

, Czech actor * Alexandr Vojta, Czech director of documents *

Billy Vojtek William Vojtek (born 29 September 1943) is a retired Australian footballer. He migrated to Australia with his family as a child in 1956 and started playing for Essendon Juniors before representing Victoria from the under 13s to under 18s. Vojtek ...

(born 1943), Australian soccer player *

Elmer Voight Elmer is a name of Germanic British origin. The given name originated as a surname, a medieval variant of the given name Aylmer, derived from Old English ''æþel'' (noble) and ''mær'' (famous). It was adopted as a given name in the United Stat ...

(born Elemír Vojtko), American golfer of Slovak origin and father of actor Jon Voight * Hermína Vojtová, Czech actress *

Ivan Vojtek Ivan () is a Slavic male given name, connected with the variant of the Greek name (English: John) from Hebrew meaning 'God is gracious'. It is associated worldwide with Slavic countries. The earliest person known to bear the name was Bulga ...

, Slovak actor * Jaroslav Vojta (1888–1970), Czech actor * Jaroslav Vojtek, Slovak director *

Jiří Vojta Jiří (; ''YI-RZHEE''), the Czech language, Czech is a masculine given name, equivalent to English George (given name), George, may refer to: Given name B *Georg Benda, Jiří Antonín Benda *Jiří Baborovský *Jiří Barta *Jiří Bartoška * ...

, Czech actor *

Josef Vojtek Josef Vojtek (born 21 June 1965 in Teplice) is a Czech rock singer. He has been the lead singer of the Czech band Kabát since 1988. He was a judge on ''The Voice Česko Slovensko The Voice Česko Slovensko (Czech and Slovak for ''The Czech / ...

, Czech musician *

Josef Vojtech Josef Vojtech (born 9 September 1925) was an Austrian weightlifter. He competed in the men's bantamweight event at the 1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and also known as London 1948) ...

(born 1925), Austrian weightlifter *

Linda Vojtová Linda Vojtová (born 22 June 1985 in Prague, Czech Republic) is a Czech model. She was the winner of the world final of Elite Model Look in 2000, held in Geneva, Switzerland. Since then, she has appeared in various international magazine publica ...

(born 1985), Czech model *

Martin Vojtek Martin Vojtek (born May 4, 1975) is a retired Czech professional ice hockey goaltender. He played with HC Oceláři Třinec in the Czech Extraliga during the 2010–11 Czech Extraliga season The 2010–11 Czech Extraliga season was the 18th seas ...

(born 1975), Czech ice hockey player *

Roman Vojtek Roman Vojtek (born 14 April 1972) is a Czech actor, television presenter, and singer. Life and career Early life and education Vojtek, born in Vsetín in the former Czechoslovakia, had to take care of himself from the age of fourteen due to th ...

, Czech actor *

Václav Vojta Václav Vojta (12 July 1917 – 12 September 2000) was a renowned Czech medical doctor who specialized in the treatment of children with cerebral palsy and developmental disorders. He discovered the principle of reflex locomotion, which is used to ...

(1917–2000), Czech physician (inventor of the Vojta method)

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