Have you ever heard of it? Probably not, if you are American. I was having lunch with my friends yesterday and we started talking about middle name and how come I don’t have one. My friend asked me, “so how do you distinguish people with the same name?“ “Well we have the birth number,“ I told her rather confused. All Czechs have one.
Governments around the world have introduced national identification number systems which are used to keep track of citizens as well as for taxation, social security and healthcare purposes. The systems vary from country to country, and in the Czech Republic there are two principle forms: the ID card( občanský průkaz) and the birth certification number, which is given to all Czech citizens at birth.
The first part of the number is the date of birth of the holder in YYMMDD format. The second part consists of four digits. Both are separated by a slash. For women the number 50 is added to the month part of the number, so for an example a birthday in April is shown as YY54DD/XXXX.
It is actually pretty cool. :D
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