What's in a Prague street name

Dudínská was built in 1941.

Dudín is a village near Humpolec (which will probably be the subject of tomorrow’s post) in the Vysočina Region. It has a population of 198.

The oldest written mention we have is from 1226; the name means that it belonged to someone named Duda, a surname in several Slavic languages, believed to be derived from ‘duda’ (bagpipes).

In Czech, it might, however, derive from ‘dudek’, a hoopoe bird. I must admit that I had to look those up, but I’m glad I did – they’re gorgeous! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoopoe#/media/File:Dudek_chocholat%C3%BD_p%C5%99i_krmen%C3%AD_ml%C3%A1%C4%8Fat.jpg