Surname Šurbek in modern Croatia

Šurbek families are Croats and they are mostly from Pregrada area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Pregrada. In places Druškovec Gora and Jelenjak in Pregrada area every seventh inhabitant had the family name Šurbek.

Prevalence

About 280 people with faimily name Šurbek live in Croatia today, in 120 households. There were 340 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 15 cities and 32 other places, mostly in Zagreb (90), in Jelenjak (30) and Desinic Gora (20) in Pregrada area, Pregrada (15), and in Kostelsko (15).

Outside Croatia

Family name Šurbek (including: Surbeck , Surbek ) is present in 8 countries on three continents. "Surbeck " is used by some 200 people in the United States , about 100 in Switzerland , and small number of people in France.

Characteristic first names

Đurđa Šurbek, Mladen Šurbek, Marina Šurbek, Rajko Šurbek, Jožica Šurbek, Dario Šurbek, Darko Šurbek, Tihana Šurbek, Brankica Šurbek, Ivan Šurbek, Zdravko Šurbek, Zlatko Šurbek, Vladimir Šurbek, Krunoslav Šurbek, Blaženka Šurbek, Josip Šurbek, Zoran Šurbek, Branimir Šurbek, Snježana Šurbek

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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