Surname Hanzec in modern Croatia

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

Prevalence

About 50 people with faimily name Hanzec live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 80 percent.
They are located in threee Croatian counties, threee cities and four other places, mostly in Jakovlje in Zapresic area (20), Zagreb (20), Voloder in Kutina area (10), Kutina (<10), and in Donja Gracenica in Kutina area (<5).

Outside Croatia

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

Characteristic first names

Karmenka Hanzec, Hrvoje Hanzec, Cvjetko Hanzec, Josip Hanzec, Goran Hanzec, Dragutin Hanzec, Ivana Hanzec, Tomislav Hanzec, Tereza Hanzec, Željko Hanzec, Terezija Hanzec, Božidar Hanzec, Marija Hanzec, Ana Hanzec, Vlado Hanzec, Branko Hanzec, Romana Hanzec, Zlatko Hanzec, Barica Hanzec

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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