Surname Kosec in modern Croatia

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

Prevalence

About 370 people with faimily name Kosec live in Croatia today, in 140 households. There were 280 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 30 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 21 cities and 45 other places, mostly in Trnovec in Varazdin area (55), Zagreb (55), Slani Potok in Donja Stubica area (40), Ludbreg (20), and in Gornja Stubica in Donja Stubica area (15).

Outside Croatia

At least five families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to the United States (3) and Switzerland (2).
Family name Kosec (including: Cossec , Chossec , Chosec , Cosec , Koshetz and Kossez ) is present in 25 countries on four continents. The family name "Kosec " is used by some 300 people in the United States , about 200 in Slovakia , and some 100 people in Uruguay. "Kossez " is used by few people in the United States. "Koshetz " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Branko Kosec, Martina Kosec, Zlatko Kosec, Irena Kosec, Krunoslav Kosec, Marijan Kosec, Nenad Kosec, Krešimir Kosec, Zdravko Kosec, Zoran Kosec, Igor Kosec, Josip Kosec, Vesna Kosec, Drago Kosec, Goran Kosec, Vitomir Kosec, Danijela Kosec, Maja Kosec, Dubravka Kosec

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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