Surname Kranjec in modern Croatia

Kranjec families are Croats and they are mostly from Sveti Ivan Zelina area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Bjelovar. In Podrute in Novi Marof every ninth inhabitant had the family name Kranjec.

Prevalence

About 1200 people with faimily name Kranjec live in Croatia today, in 460 households. There were 1300 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 43 cities and 153 other places, mostly in Zagreb (220), Zrinski Topolovac in Krizevci area (35), Hlevnica in Krapina area (35), Sveta Marija in Prelog area (30), and in Varazdin (30).

Outside Croatia

At least 20 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (7), Australia (5), Austria (3), the United States (2), Sweden (1), France (1), and to Canada (1).
Family name Kranjec (including: Kranyecz , Kranyec , Kraniez and Kranyetz ) is present in 18 countries worldwide. The family name "Kranjec " is used by some 70 people in Canada , small number in Germany , and small number in the United States. "Kranyec " is used by few people in the United States. "Kranyetz " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Željko Kranjec, Irena Kranjec, Antonio Kranjec, Ljiljana Kranjec, Branka Kranjec, Tea Kranjec, Dorijan Kranjec, Velimir Kranjec, Josip Kranjec, Darko Kranjec, Ladislav Kranjec, Gordana Kranjec, Slavko Kranjec, Berislav Kranjec, Zdravko Kranjec, Robert Kranjec, Nataša Kranjec, Leonardo Kranjec, Damir Kranjec

Mentions in sources

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

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