Surname Jarec in modern Croatia

Jarec families are Croats and they are mostly from Sveti Ivan Zelina. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sveti Ivan Zelina and Zagreb. In places Bunjak and Nespeš in Sveti Ivan Zelina every fourth inhabitant had the family name Jarec.

Prevalence

About 110 people with faimily name Jarec live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 220 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved.
They are located in threee Croatian counties and 16 other places, mostly in Bunjak (45), Zagreb (15), Biskupec Zelinski (10), Nespes (10), and in Gornja Drenova (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Jarec (including: Yaretz , Jarez , Jaretz , Yarez and Jarecz ) is present in 16 countries on four continents. "Jarez " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Yarez " is used by few people in the United States. "Jarecz " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Darko Jarec, Mladen Jarec, Željko Jarec, Ljerka Jarec, Đuro Jarec, Stjepan Jarec, Zvonko Jarec, Tomislav Jarec, Dubravka Jarec, Dražen Jarec, Elizabeta Jarec, Ljiljana Jarec, Marica Jarec, Đurđica Jarec, Marijan Jarec, Nikola Jarec, Ivana Jarec, Biserka Jarec, Dragica Jarec

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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