Surname Gjurgjek in modern Croatia

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

Prevalence

About 10 people with faimily name Gjurgjek live in Croatia today, in four households only. There were 0 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied.
They are located in threee Croatian counties, two cities and two other places, mostly in Zagreb (<5), Pitomaca in Djurdjevac area (<5), Varazdin (<5), and in Vidovec in Varazdin area (<5).

Outside Croatia

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

Characteristic first names

Željko Gjurgjek, Dražen Gjurgjek, Marina Gjurgjek, Ljiljana Gjurgjek, Antun Gjurgjek, Terezija Gjurgjek, Ana Gjurgjek, Franjo Gjurgjek, Blanka Gjurgjek, Karlo Gjurgjek, Stjepan Gjurgjek, Slavko Gjurgjek, Dragutin Gjurgjek, Zdenka Gjurgjek, Petra Gjurgjek, Ranata Gjurgjek, Fran Gjurgjek, Marija Gjurgjek, Branimir Gjurgjek

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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