Surname Drvenkar in modern Croatia

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

Prevalence

About 200 people with faimily name Drvenkar live in Croatia today, in 90 households. There were 170 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 12 cities and 28 other places, mostly in Podravske Sesvete in Djurdjevac area (35), Koprivnica (20), in Mala Subotica (20) and Belica (15) in Cakovec area, and in Vrbovecki Pavlovec (15).

Outside Croatia

Family name Drvenkar is present in 9 countries on four continents. The family name "Drvenkar " is used by some 50 people in the United States and small number in Germany.

Characteristic first names

Vlado Drvenkar, Ivana Drvenkar, Mladen Drvenkar, Kristijan Drvenkar, Bernard Drvenkar, Damir Drvenkar, Vera Drvenkar, Josip Drvenkar, Božidar Drvenkar, Luka Drvenkar, Dalibor Drvenkar, Djuro Drvenkar, Zlatko Drvenkar, Danijela Drvenkar, Đurđica Drvenkar, Brankica Drvenkar, Dragutin Drvenkar, Hrvoje Drvenkar, Daniela Drvenkar

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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