Surname Crkvenac in modern Croatia

Crkvenac families are Croats and they are mostly from Bjelovar area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Bjelovar and Garesnica.

Prevalence

About 120 people with faimily name Crkvenac live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 190 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent.
They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 11 cities and 12 other places, mostly in Zagreb (25), Bjelovar (25), Garesnica (20), Karlovac (10), and in Simljana in Cazma area (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Crkvenac is present in five countries on two continents. The family name "Crkvenac " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Mato Crkvenac, Berislav Crkvenac, Željko Crkvenac, Dinko Crkvenac, Krunoslav Crkvenac, Nikola Crkvenac, Sandra Crkvenac, Đuro Crkvenac, Ana Crkvenac, Kata Crkvenac, Mirko Crkvenac, Slavko Crkvenac, Zdenko Crkvenac, Krešimir Crkvenac, Renata Crkvenac, Davor Crkvenac, Karolina Crkvenac, Boris Crkvenac, Tito Crkvenac

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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