Vojtech
Vojtěch (Czech pronunciation: 
The name Adalbert is occasionally associated with Vojtech, due to the saint Adalbert of Prague, however, the two names have no linguistic relationship with each other.
Use in Czech
The proper Czech spelling of the name is 'Vojtěch'. 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.) Pronounced as "Voy-tekh".
A common shorter version of the name is Vojta, pronounced as Voy-tuh. 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 in the Czech republic.[1]
Use in the 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, and Wozzeck
Given 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 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 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
- Vojtěch Slavník (956–997), Saint Vojtěch, bishop of Prague
- Vojtech Tuka (1880–1946), Slovak prime minister
- Vojtech Zamarovský (1919–2006), Slovak writer
Surname
- Adam Vojtěch, Czech singer
- Adolf Vojta-Jurný, Czech actor
- Alexandr Vojta, Czech director of documents
- Elmer Voight (born Elmer Vojtka), American golfer 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
- Linda Vojtová (born 1985), Czech model
- Roman Vojtek, Czech actor
- Václav Vojta (1917–2000), Czech physician (inventor of the Vojta method)
See also
- Wojciech, a Polish variant
- Slavic names