Surname Šercer in modern Croatia

Šercer families are Croats and they are mostly from Cakovec. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Cakovec and Zagreb.

Prevalence

About 70 people with faimily name Šercer live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 90 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 10 cities and 16 other places, mostly in Zagreb (10), Donji Kraljevec in Prelog area (<10), Gorican in Cakovec area (<10), Delnice (<10), and in Popovaca in Kutina area (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Šercer (including: Scherzer , Sercer , Schertzer , Shertzer , Sherzer , Shterzer , Schwertzer , Schercer and Sercher ) is present in 32 countries worldwide. The family name "Sercer " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Schercer " is used by few people in the United States. "Scherzer " is used by some 2000 people in Germany , about 1000 in the United States , and some 1000 people in Austria.

Characteristic first names

Mladen Šercer, Vilko Šercer, Drago Šercer, Miljenko Šercer, Žarko Šercer, Vladimir Šercer, Ante Šercer, Snježana Šercer, Arijana Šercer, Anita Šercer, Nada Šercer, Darko Šercer, Marija Šercer, Marko Šercer, Vlasta Šercer, Ljiljana Šercer, Marijana Šercer, Nenad Šercer, Irena Šercer

Mentions in sources

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

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