Surname Dolenec in modern Croatia

Dolenec 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 Koprivnica and Zagreb. In Jablanići in Podrinje (Bosnia) nearly every inhabitant had the family name Dolenec.

Prevalence

About 590 people with faimily name Dolenec live in Croatia today, in 290 households. There were 780 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 26 cities and 61 other places, mostly in Zagreb (120), Koprivnica (65), Molve in Djurdjevac area (25), Varazdin (25), and in Kotoriba in Prelog area (25).

Outside Croatia

At least 13 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (6), the United States (3), Australia (2), and to Sweden (2).
Family name Dolenec is present in 13 countries on four continents.

Characteristic first names

Željko Dolenec, Zdravko Dolenec, Marija Dolenec, Hrvoje Dolenec, Danijela Dolenec, Josip Dolenec, Ivan Dolenec, Sandra Dolenec, Branko Dolenec, Dražen Dolenec, Milivoj Dolenec, Matija Dolenec, Darko Dolenec, Branimir Dolenec, Goran Dolenec, Zoran Dolenec, Nevenko Dolenec, Renata Dolenec, Marina Dolenec

Mentions in sources

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

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