Surname Kropek in modern Croatia

Kropek families are Croats and they are mostly from Novi Marof. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Novi Marof and Varazdin.

Prevalence

About 60 people with faimily name Kropek live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 60 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are only located in four Croatian cities and 5 other places, mostly in Orehovec (15), Cakovec (15), Zagreb (10), Novi Marof (10), and in Sesvete (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Kropek (including: Kropec , Cropek and Kropeck ) is present in 8 countries on two continents. "Kropeck " is used by few people in the United States. "Cropek " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Maja Kropek, Zdenka Kropek, Dražen Kropek, Ana Kropek, Nino Kropek, Branko Kropek, Franjo Kropek, Siniša Kropek, Tomislav Kropek, Dragutin Kropek, Zvonimir Kropek, Marijan Kropek, Josip Kropek, Kristina Kropek, Jelena Kropek, Natalija Kropek, Matija Kropek, Mirko Kropek, Jolanka Kropek

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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