Surname Gledec in modern Croatia

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

Prevalence

About 50 people with faimily name Gledec live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 70 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are only located in threee Croatian cities and 9 other places, mostly in Zagreb (25), Poljanica Bistricka in Zlatar area (10), Sesvete (<10), Hrasce Turopoljsko (<5), and in Dubovec in Donja Stubica area (<5).

Outside Croatia

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

Characteristic first names

Mladen Gledec, Zlatko Gledec, Gordan Gledec, Ljiljana Gledec, Josip Gledec, Đurđica Gledec, Ivan Gledec, Ines Gledec, Željko Gledec, Božidar Gledec, Juraj Gledec, Anita Gledec, Maja Gledec, Brigita Gledec, Silva Gledec, Marija Gledec, Kata Gledec, Mijo Gledec, Darko Gledec

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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