Surname Kluk in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Kluk families are Croats (from Vrbovec ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Vrbovec and Zagreb.

Prevalence

About 40 people with faimily name Kluk live in Croatia today, in 16 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 70 percent.
They are located and four other Croatian places, mostly in Zagreb (10), Banovo (<10), Split (<10), Velika Gorica (<10), and in Djurdjenovac in Nasice area (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Kluk (including: Kluck , Kluch , Kluc , Klucz , Kluchko , Klueck , Kluchka , Kluchki and Klukh ) is present in 54 countries worldwide. The family name "Kluk " is used by some 2000 people in Poland , about 400 in the United States , and some 100 people in Brazil. "Kluck " is used by some 3000 people in the United States , about 2000 in Germany , and some 700 people in Brazil. "Klueck " is used by small number of people in Germany and small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Tomislav Kluk, Ivan Kluk, Petra Kluk, Ljiljana Kluk, Marijan Kluk, Vesna Kluk, Jelena Kluk, Valentina Kluk, Vinko Kluk, Krešimir Kluk, Ivica Kluk, Vladimir Kluk, Branka Kluk, Zdenka Kluk, Stjepan Kluk, Mirko Kluk, Mirjana Kluk, Željko Kluk, Helena Kluk

Mentions in sources

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

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