Surname Kezele in modern Croatia

Kezele families are Croats and they are mostly from Delnice. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and Delnice.

Prevalence

About 380 people with faimily name Kezele live in Croatia today, in 170 households. There were 400 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 25 cities and 38 other places, mostly in Delnice (80), Zagreb (65), Rijeka (55), Varazdin (15), and in Garesnica (10).

Outside Croatia

At least 17 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (8), Sweden (4), Germany (2), the United Kingdom (1), Australia (1), and to Austria (1).
Family name Kezele is present in 12 countries on three continents. The family name "Kezele " is used by some 300 people in the United States , about 90 in Liberia , and small number of people in Canada.

Characteristic first names

Nenad Kezele, Toni Kezele, Igor Kezele, Ana Kezele, Boško Kezele, Ljiljana Kezele, Vladimira Kezele, Silvija Kezele, Miroslav Kezele, Mario Kezele, Vladimir Kezele, Zdenka Kezele, Borivoj Kezele, Vesna Kezele, Damir Kezele, Jasna Kezele, Lidija Kezele, Nevenka Kezele, Maja Kezele

Mentions in sources

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

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