Surname Blažeković in modern Croatia

Blažeković families are Croats and they are mostly from Bjelovar area. According to some sources they are from Podravina. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Bjelovar. In Bojana in Cazma every sixth inhabitant had the family name Blažeković.

Prevalence

About 880 people with faimily name Blažeković live in Croatia today, in 380 households. There were 980 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 46 cities and 88 other places, mostly in Zagreb (125), Koprivnica (65), Bjelovar (60), Velika Gorica (45), and in Orubica in Nova Gradiska area (35).

Outside Croatia

At least 11 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Australia (3), Germany (2), Switzerland (2), Argentina (1), the United States (1), Austria (1), and to the United Kingdom (1).
Family name Blažeković (including: Blazekovic , Blazekovich ) is present in 12 countries on three continents. The family name "Blazekovic " is used by some 100 people in the United States , small number in Germany , and small number of people in Austria , small number of people in Romania. "Blazekovich " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Robert Blažeković, Inoslav Blažeković, Petar Blažeković, Saša Blažeković, Nenad Blažeković, Jasenka Blažeković, Damir Blažeković, Kristijan Blažeković, Ivan Blažeković, Senka Blažeković, Miljenko Blažeković, Stjepan Blažeković, Josip Blažeković, Darko Blažeković, Mario Blažeković, Snježana Blažeković, Eduard Blažeković, Marijan Blažeković, Boris Blažeković

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over sixty times, the first time 1701 in source Catholic Church Parish Records.

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