Surname Kvaternik in modern Croatia

Kvaternik families are Croats and they are mostly from Vrbovsko area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Rijeka. In Vele Drage in Vrbovsko area every second inhabitant had the family name Kvaternik.

Prevalence

About 330 people with faimily name Kvaternik live in Croatia today, in 140 households. There were 410 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 25 cities and 44 other places, mostly in Zagreb (70), Rijeka (30), Gerovo (20), Bucje (15), and in Karlovac (15).

Outside Croatia

At least six families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (4), France (1), and to Germany (1).
Family name Kvaternik is present in 13 countries worldwide. The family name "Kvaternik " is used by some 100 people in the United States , about 100 in France , and small number of people in Canada. "Kvaternick " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Ratimir Kvaternik, Krešimir Kvaternik, Zvonko Kvaternik, Danijel Kvaternik, Mladen Kvaternik, Ljerka Kvaternik, Tatjana Kvaternik, Željko Kvaternik, Duško Kvaternik, Davorin Kvaternik, Vladimir Kvaternik, Marina Kvaternik, Vesna Kvaternik, Siniša Kvaternik, Irena Kvaternik, Boris Kvaternik, Jasminka Kvaternik, Dubravko Kvaternik, Mira Kvaternik

Mentions in sources

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

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