Surname Detel in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Detel families are almost entirely Croats (from Vrbovec area ), very rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and Zagreb.

Prevalence

About 30 people with faimily name Detel live in Croatia today, in 14 households. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number tripled.
They are located in threee Croatian counties, two cities and 6 other places, mostly in Sesvete (10), Zagreb (10), Rijeka (<10), Kostrena in Bakr area (<5), and in Novoselec in Ivanic-Grad area (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Detel (including: Detell , Dettel and Dethel ) is present in 6 countries on three continents. The family name "Detel " is used by some 100 people in Germany and small number in the United States. "Dethel " is used by few people in the United States. "Detell " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Dijana Detel, Svjetlana Detel, Zrinka Detel, Danijel Detel, Valent Detel, Milivoj Detel, Boris Detel, Ruth Detel, Cecilija Detel, Josip Detel, Mirjana Detel, Ivka Detel, Dragutin Detel, Darko Detel, Bazilija Detel, Milesa Detel, Katica Detel, Miljenko Detel, Damir Detel

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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