Surname Čavec in modern Croatia

Čavec families are Croats and they are mostly from Novi Marof area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Novi Marof area and in Zagreb. In Donji Kraljevec in Novi Marof area every fifth inhabitant had the family name Čavec.

Prevalence

About 70 people with faimily name Čavec live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 80 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 8 cities and 7 other places, mostly in Donji Kraljevec in Novi Marof area (25), Zagreb (20), Pozega (<10), Novi Marof (<5), and in Sesvete (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Čavec (including: Chavez , Chavezz , Cahvez , Chavec , Chawech , Cavec , Chaveez , Chaavez , Cavez and Chavvez ) is present in 127 countries worldwide. "Chavec " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Cavez " is used by small number of people in the United States and small number in France. "Chavez " is used by some 1000000 people in Mexico , about 400000 in Peru , and some 400000 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Irena Čavec, Miroslav Čavec, Katica Čavec, Tomislav Čavec, Ivana Čavec, Nadica Čavec, Ivan Čavec, Bosiljka Čavec, Anđelka Čavec, Vladimir Čavec, Valentina Čavec, Zlatko Čavec, Josip Čavec, Dragutin Čavec, Zlata Čavec, Slavica Čavec, Neda Čavec, Verica Čavec, Vlado Čavec

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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