Surname Brgles in modern Croatia

Brgles families are Croats and they are mostly from Ivanec area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Koprivnica. In Gornjaki in Vrbovec area every tenth inhabitant had the family name Brgles.

Prevalence

About 200 people with faimily name Brgles live in Croatia today, in 90 households. There were 160 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 19 cities and 27 other places, mostly in Zagreb (35), Koprivnica (25), Sesvete (15), Ivanec Bistranski (<10), and in Sracinec in Varazdin area (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Brgles (including: Bergles , Bergless ) is present in 8 countries on three continents. "Bergles " is used by some 200 people in the United States , small number in Austria , and small number in Canada. "Bergless " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Željko Brgles, Dobrila Brgles, Matija Brgles, Andreja Brgles, Siniša Brgles, Zdravko Brgles, Josip Brgles, Saša Brgles, Marija Brgles, Manuela Brgles, Damir Brgles, Andrija Brgles, Marinko Brgles, Krešimir Brgles, Dragotin Brgles, Ivan Brgles, Dragutin Brgles, Biljana Brgles, Sandra Brgles

Mentions in sources

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

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