Surname Brleković in modern Croatia

Brleković families are Croats and they are mostly from Hrvatska Kostajnica area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sisak and Zagreb. In Greda Sunjska in Hrvatska Kostajnica area every tenth inhabitant had the family name Brleković.

Prevalence

About 270 people with faimily name Brleković live in Croatia today, in 110 households. There were 340 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 19 cities and 42 other places, mostly in Zagreb (25), Lekenik in Petrinja area (20), Greda Sunjska in Hrvatska Kostajnica area (20), Leskovec Toplicki (15), and in Rasinja in Koprivnica area (15).

Outside Croatia

At least three families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to Germany (2) and the United States (1).
Family name Brleković (including: Brlekovic , Brlekovich and Berlekovic ) is present in 6 countries on three continents. "Berlekovic " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Ivan Brleković, Renato Brleković, Krasnodar Brleković, Davor Brleković, Krešimir Brleković, Nataša Brleković, Magdalena Brleković, Andreja Brleković, Blaženka Brleković, Tugomir Brleković, Ljiljana Brleković, Marija Brleković, Monika Brleković, Vesna Brleković, Željko Brleković, Darko Brleković, Krunoslav Brleković, Goran Brleković, Kristina Brleković

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1691 in source Catholic Church Parish Records.

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