Surname Janeković in modern Croatia

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

Prevalence

About 120 people with faimily name Janeković live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 190 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent.
They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 10 cities and 11 other places, mostly in Zagreb (20), Koprivnica (20), Desno Trebarjevo in Sisak area (10), Lovrecka Velika (10), and in Zablatje in Koprivnica area (10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Janeković (including: Janekovic , Yanekovich ) is present in 8 countries on two continents.

Characteristic first names

August Janeković, Ivica Janeković, Zoran Janeković, Andrea Janeković, Marcel Janeković, Stjepan Janeković, Marko Janeković, Đuro Janeković, Vlatka Janeković, Marijan Janeković, Berislav Janeković, Goran Janeković, Dubravka Janeković, Elvira Janeković, Vida Janeković, Marijana Janeković, Josip Janeković, Marija Janeković, Tihomir Janeković

Mentions in sources

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

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