Surname Bertalan in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Bertalan families are Croats (from Djurdjevac area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Cakovec and Zagreb.

Prevalence

About 20 people with faimily name Bertalan live in Croatia today, in 9 households. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number doubled.
They are only located in threee Croatian cities and threee other places, mostly in Zagreb (<10), Cakovec (<5), Novi Ceminac in Beli Manastir area (<5), Kozarevac in Djurdjevac area (<5), and in Novska (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Bertalan is present in 27 countries on four continents. The family name "Bertalan " is used by some 3000 people in Hungary , about 600 in Romania , and some 300 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Vanja Bertalan, Ivica Bertalan, Stjepan Bertalan, Ksenija Bertalan, Katarina Bertalan, Bernarda Bertalan, Ivan Bertalan, Jelena Bertalan, Kristijan Bertalan, Franjo Bertalan, Matilda Bertalan, Marija Bertalan, Treza Bertalan, Đurđa Bertalan, Mladen Bertalan, Branislav Bertalan, Željko Bertalan, Senka Bertalan, Jurica Bertalan

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.

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