Surname Žuvelek.

  • Surname Žuvelek in modern Croatia

    In Croatia, Žuvelek families are Croats (from Opuzen area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Opuzen area and in Metkovic. In Mislina in Opuzen area every ninth inhabitant had the family name Žuvelek.

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  • Prevalence

    About 60 people with faimily name Žuvelek live in Croatia today, in 19 households. There were 40 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 60 percent.
    They are only located in threee Croatian cities and 6 other places, mostly in Metkovic (25), Mislina in Opuzen area (15), Dubrovnik (<10), Opuzen (<10), and in Nova Mokosica (<5).

  • Outside Croatia


    Family name Žuvelek is present in two countries on two continents.

  • Characteristic first names

    Tomislav Žuvelek, Ivan Žuvelek, Jurica Žuvelek, Mario Žuvelek, Marija Žuvelek, Jozo Žuvelek, Antonela Žuvelek, Marin Žuvelek, Anđa Žuvelek, Velinko Žuvelek, Mijo Žuvelek, Anica Žuvelek, Željko Žuvelek, Nikola Žuvelek, Mate Žuvelek, Slava Žuvelek, Ivica Žuvelek, Jerko Žuvelek, Mare Žuvelek

  • Last name Žuvelek around the globe

    See the countries where surname Žuvelek is common, frequency and prevalence at mondonomo.ai

  • 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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