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Vit
Vit Vít connects its bearer to the heart of Czech national identity through Prague's cathedral and centuries of Czech history. Characters with this name carry that heritage naturally — whether as historians, architects, or ordinary Praguers who feel the city's medieval stones beneath their feet as they walk its streets.
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