Surname Beck in modern Croatia

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

Prevalence

About 90 people with faimily name Beck live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 60 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 50 percent.
They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 12 cities and four other places, mostly in Zagreb (35), Osijek (25), Cepin in Osijek area (10), Opatovac in Ilok area (<10), and in Split (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Beck (including: Beeck , Becce , Becco , Becq , Beckh , Beerck , Bechk , Becck and Bezck ) is present in 146 countries worldwide. The family name "Beck " is used by some 200000 people in the United States , about 100000 in Germany , and some 20000 people in Brazil. "Becck " is used by few people in the United States. "Bezck " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Boris Beck, Mladen Beck, Ana Beck, Jasminka Beck, Vjekoslav Beck, Relja Beck, Zdenko Beck, Radovan Beck, Jasmina Beck, Marijan Beck, Silvija Beck, Joseph Beck, Svjetlana Beck, Goran Beck, Sanja Beck, Zdenka Beck, Denis Beck, Mirjana Beck, Ira Beck

Mentions in sources

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

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