Surname Jurčec in modern Croatia

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

Prevalence

About 360 people with faimily name Jurčec live in Croatia today, in 160 households. There were 380 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 17 cities and 41 other places, mostly in Zagreb (85), Cehovec (20), Bedekovcina in Lepoglava area (20), Donji Kraljevec in Prelog area (20), and in Gorican in Cakovec area (15).

Outside Croatia

Family name Jurčec is present in 6 countries on three continents.

Characteristic first names

Zdravko Jurčec, Anri Jurčec, Lana Jurčec, Saša Jurčec, Ljubomir Jurčec, Nada Jurčec, Branka Jurčec, Nataša Jurčec, Zdenko Jurčec, Božidar Jurčec, Zlatko Jurčec, Boltežar Jurčec, Slavica Jurčec, Zoran Jurčec, Danijela Jurčec, Dragutin Jurčec, Zrinka Jurčec, Majda Jurčec, Mirela Jurčec

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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