Surname Birek in modern Croatia

Birek families are Croats and they are mostly from Petrinja area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Velika Gorica and Zagreb.

Prevalence

About 80 people with faimily name Birek live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 90 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in four Croatian counties, in 6 cities and 11 other places, mostly in Donji Vukojevac in Petrinja area (15), Velika Gorica (15), Zagreb (<10), Kljucic Brdo (<10), and in Petrinja (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Birek (including: Birech , Bireche , Bierek and Birreck ) is present in 20 countries worldwide. The family name "Birek " is used by some 200 people in Poland , about 60 in the United States , and small number of people in Canada. "Bierek " is used by some 70 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Sanjica Birek, Stjepan Birek, Sunčica Birek, Ivan Birek, Krešimir Birek, Željko Birek, Ivanka Birek, Neven Birek, Damir Birek, Mirela Birek, Katica Birek, Miroslav Birek, Boris Birek, Slavica Birek, Mirko Birek, Ljiljana Birek, Darko Birek, Martina Birek, Vladimir Birek

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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