Surname Dolenčić in modern Croatia

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

Prevalence

About 170 people with faimily name Dolenčić live in Croatia today, in 70 households. There were 210 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 12 cities and 22 other places, mostly in Zagreb (40), Kotoriba in Prelog area (25), Voloder in Kutina area (15), Bjelovar (15), and in Cakovec (10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Dolenčić is present in three countries on three continents. The family name "Dolencic " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Krešimir Dolenčić, Nada Dolenčić, Petar Dolenčić, Helena Dolenčić, Tibor Dolenčić, Tihomir Dolenčić, Davor Dolenčić, Tomislav Dolenčić, Marija Dolenčić, Goran Dolenčić, Vjeran Dolenčić, Neven Dolenčić, Kristina Dolenčić, Alica Dolenčić, Krunoslav Dolenčić, Silvija Dolenčić, Ninoslav Dolenčić, Ivan Dolenčić, Zlatko Dolenčić

Mentions in sources

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

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