Surname Fašnik in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Fašnik families are Croats (from Vrbovec area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Vrbovec and Zagreb. In Banovo in Vrbovec every twentieth inhabitant had the family name Fašnik.

Prevalence

About 10 people with faimily name Fašnik live in Croatia today, in five households only. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved.
They are located in only four naselja i to in Vrbovec (<5), Pogancec in Vrbovec area (<5), Zagreb (<5), and in Sesvete (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Fašnik is present in this form only in Croatia.

Characteristic first names

Fredi Fašnik, Tihomir Fašnik, Dražen Fašnik, Zlatko Fašnik, Martin Fašnik, Marica Fašnik, Ivanka Fašnik, Miroslav Fašnik, Gordana Fašnik, Draga Fašnik, Marija Fašnik, Matija Fašnik, Josip Fašnik, Dora Fašnik, Adela Fašnik, Alojzije Fašnik, Kata Fašnik, Katarina Fašnik, Ljubica Fašnik

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1930 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.

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