Surname Kvaternjak in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Kvaternjak families are Croats (from Vrbovec area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Vrbovec area and in Vrbovec. In Hruškovica in Vrbovec area every ninth inhabitant had the family name Kvaternjak.

Prevalence

About 20 people with faimily name Kvaternjak live in Croatia today, in 9 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent.
They are located in only five naselja i to in Zagreb (<10), Brcevec (<5), Krizevci (<5), Vrbovec (<5), and in Ivanja Reka (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Kvaternjak is present in two countries.

Characteristic first names

Ivka Kvaternjak, Marijan Kvaternjak, Franjo Kvaternjak, Ivan Kvaternjak, Marica Kvaternjak, Dubravka Kvaternjak, Vladimir Kvaternjak, Željka Kvaternjak, Snježana Kvaternjak, Velimir Kvaternjak, Mirna Kvaternjak, Ana Kvaternjak, Dragica Kvaternjak, Kata Kvaternjak, Anđela Kvaternjak, Zlata Kvaternjak, Vlado Kvaternjak, Anica Kvaternjak, Iskra Kvaternjak

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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