Surname Kontrec in modern Croatia

Kontrec 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 Cakovec and Zagreb.

Prevalence

About 390 people with faimily name Kontrec live in Croatia today, in 160 households. There were 380 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 19 cities and 52 other places, mostly in Zagreb (55), Veliko Trgovisce in Zabok area (50), Varazdin (35), Cakovec (25), and in Mursko Sredisce (25).

Outside Croatia

At least seven families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United Kingdom (3), Germany (2), the United States (1), and to Switzerland (1).
Family name Kontrec is present in 11 countries on four continents. "Conterez " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Damir Kontrec, Danijel Kontrec, Drago Kontrec, Ivana Kontrec, Jasminka Kontrec, Darko Kontrec, Kristijan Kontrec, Sanja Kontrec, Ljudevit Kontrec, Blanka Kontrec, Lucija Kontrec, Antun Kontrec, Bruno Kontrec, Mirna Kontrec, Štefanija Kontrec, Dragutin Kontrec, Srečko Kontrec, Miroslav Kontrec, Đurđica Kontrec

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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