Surname Jurgec in modern Croatia

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

Prevalence

About 140 people with faimily name Jurgec live in Croatia today, in 60 households. There were 130 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 15 cities and 16 other places, mostly in Zagreb (25), Pakrac (15), Golobrdci (15), Cakovec (10), and in Sracinec in Varazdin area (10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Jurgec (including: Yurgec , Jurgetz ) is present in 9 countries on three continents. "Yurgec " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Andrija Jurgec, Krunoslav Jurgec, Ivica Jurgec, Dragutin Jurgec, Zdravka Jurgec, Monika Jurgec, Viktor Jurgec, Franjo Jurgec, Bojan Jurgec, Ana Jurgec, Stjepan Jurgec, Vladimir Jurgec, Danijel Jurgec, Josip Jurgec, Ksenija Jurgec, Tanja Jurgec, Tomislav Jurgec, Željko Jurgec, Ivan Jurgec

Mentions in sources

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

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