Surname Fresl in modern Croatia

Fresl families are Croats and they are mostly from Samobor. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Samobor and Zagreb. In Rude in Samobor every ninth inhabitant had the family name Fresl.

Prevalence

About 280 people with faimily name Fresl live in Croatia today, in 110 households. There were 290 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 11 cities and 21 other places, mostly in Rude (110), Samobor (65), Zagreb (60), Jastrebarsko (<10), and in Bregana (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Fresl (including: Fressel , Fressl and Frössl ) is present in 12 countries on four continents. "Fressel " is used by small number of people in France , small number in the United States , and small number of people in Austria.

Characteristic first names

Krešimir Fresl, Vladimir Fresl, Matija Fresl, Željko Fresl, Jana Fresl, Tomislav Fresl, Siniša Fresl, Đuro Fresl, Marija Fresl, Ivica Fresl, Biserka Fresl, Branka Fresl, Ana Fresl, Darko Fresl, Marina Fresl, Ivan Fresl, Renata Fresl, Petar Fresl, Miroslav Fresl

Mentions in sources

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

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