Surname Eros in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Eros families are Croats (from Ivanec ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Varazdin.

Prevalence

Only a few people with faimily name Eros live in Croatia today, in two households only. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly.
They are located in three Croatian cities only: in Ivanec (<5), Pula (<5), and in Rabac (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Eros (including: Eross , Heros , Herros , Erosh and Heroos ) is present in 61 countries worldwide. The family name "Eros " is used by some 1000 people in Hungary , about 600 in Indonesia , and some 300 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Iren Eros, Tomislav Eros, Marin Eros, Karlo Eros, Monika Eros, Dinka Eros

Mentions in sources

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

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