Surname Dekleva in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Dekleva families are generally Croats (from Porec area ), very rarely Slovenes (from Middle Bosnia ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and Opatija.

Prevalence

About 60 people with faimily name Dekleva live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 70 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in threee Croatian counties, in 6 cities and four other places, mostly in Rijeka (25), Visnjan in Porec area (10), Matulji in Opatija area (<10), Zagreb (<10), and in Pula (<10).

Outside Croatia

At least two families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to the United States (1) and Australia (1).
Family name Dekleva (including: Decleva , Deklewa ) is present in 17 countries worldwide. The family name "Dekleva " is used by some 100 people in Argentina , about 100 in the United States , and small number of people in Australia. "Deklewa " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Željko Dekleva, Lea Dekleva, Mia Dekleva, Saša Dekleva, Ingrid Dekleva, Dario Dekleva, Amneris Dekleva, Daliborka Dekleva, Klaudio Dekleva, Goran Dekleva, Rajka Dekleva, Vedran Dekleva, Vladimira Dekleva, Dean Dekleva, Marica Dekleva, Ivan Dekleva, Gordana Dekleva, Danijel Dekleva, Bojan Dekleva

Mentions in sources

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

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