Surname Cuzelj in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Cuzelj families are Croats (from Vrbovec area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Vrbovec area and in Bjelovar.

Prevalence

About 20 people with faimily name Cuzelj live in Croatia today, in 7 households. There were 60 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly.
They are located in only four naselja i to in Ledina in Vrbovec area (<10), Mali Raven (<10), and in Zabnjak (<5) and Slatina (<5) in Vrbovec area.

Outside Croatia

Family name Cuzelj is present in this form only in Croatia.

Characteristic first names

Darijo Cuzelj, Valent Cuzelj, Stjepan Cuzelj, Đuro Cuzelj, Dražen Cuzelj, Zlatica Cuzelj, Slavko Cuzelj, Marina Cuzelj, Marija Cuzelj, Amalija Cuzelj, Kata Cuzelj, Katarina Cuzelj, Ljubica Cuzelj, Ana Cuzelj, Katica Cuzelj, Božica Cuzelj, Sandica Cuzelj, Irene Cuzelj, Vesna Cuzelj

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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