Surname Kuzmek in modern Croatia

Kuzmek families are Croats and they are mostly from Vrbovca. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Vrbovec and Zagreb. In Vrhovec in Vrbovec every fourth inhabitant had the family name Kuzmek.

Prevalence

About 70 people with faimily name Kuzmek live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 90 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in threee Croatian counties, in 7 cities and 10 other places, mostly in Vrhovec (25), Rakovec in Sveti Ivan Zelina area (15), Zagreb (<10), Bjelovar (<10), and in Banicevec in Sveti Ivan Zelina area (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Kuzmek (including: Kuzmec , Kuzmech ) is present in three countries on two continents. "Kuzmech " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Irena Kuzmek, Zoran Kuzmek, Srećko Kuzmek, Mario Kuzmek, Božidar Kuzmek, Milivoj Kuzmek, Vladimir Kuzmek, Robert Kuzmek, Davor Kuzmek, Silvana Kuzmek, Gabrijel Kuzmek, Svjetlana Kuzmek, Ivan Kuzmek, Ljiljana Kuzmek, Damir Kuzmek, Ivica Kuzmek, Mirjana Kuzmek, Milan Kuzmek, Josip Kuzmek

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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