Surname Grgec in modern Croatia

Grgec families are Croats and they are mostly from Oroslavje area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Oroslavje area. In places Donja Bistra and Gornja Bistra in Oroslavje area every twentieth inhabitant had the family name Grgec.

Prevalence

About 440 people with faimily name Grgec live in Croatia today, in 180 households. There were 500 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 30 cities and 36 other places, mostly in Zagreb (135), Gornja Bistra in Oroslavje area (35), Ludbreg (35), Jakovlje in Zapresic area (35), and in Donja Bistra in Oroslavje area (35).

Outside Croatia

At least six families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (3), the United States (1), France (1), and to Switzerland (1).
Family name Grgec (including: Gergetz , Gergec ) is present in 7 countries on three continents. The family name "Grgec " is used by small number of people in New Zealand and small number in the United States. "Gergetz " is used by small number of people in Germany and small number in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Dalibor Grgec, Radovan Grgec, Katarina Grgec, Miroslav Grgec, Nenad Grgec, Ljubomir Grgec, Marijan Grgec, Eva Grgec, Marina Grgec, Snježana Grgec, Maja Grgec, Nada Grgec, Zvonko Grgec, Darko Grgec, Juran Grgec, Goran Grgec, Davor Grgec, Damir Grgec, Manuel Grgec

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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