Surname Lebec in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Lebec families are almost entirely Croats (from Bjelovar area ), very rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Bjelovar area and in Bjelovar.

Prevalence

About 50 people with faimily name Lebec live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 70 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties and 10 other places, mostly in Samarica (10) and Babinac (10) in Bjelovar area, Laminac in Cazma area (<10), Bjelovar (<10), and in Donja Petricka in Bjelovar area (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Lebec (including: Lebez , Hlebec , Hlebetz , Lebetz , Lebech and Leerbech ) is present in 22 countries on four continents. The family name "Lebec " is used by some 1000 people in France , about 90 in the United States , and small number of people in Belgium. "Lebetz " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Branka Lebec, Snježana Lebec, Franjo Lebec, Željka Lebec, Božidar Lebec, Zlata Lebec, Antonijo Lebec, Damir Lebec, Sabina Lebec, Željko Lebec, Marija Lebec, Mira Lebec, Vlado Lebec, Ivan Lebec, Milan Lebec, Roža Lebec, Mirjana Lebec, Zlatko Lebec, Mato Lebec

Mentions in sources

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

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