Surname Leskovec in modern Croatia

Leskovec families are Croats and they are mostly from Mursko Sredisce. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Mursko Sredisce.

Prevalence

About 130 people with faimily name Leskovec live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 120 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 10 cities and 12 other places, mostly in Zagreb (60), Bregana (<10), Split (<10), Varazdin (<10), and in Samobor (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Leskovec is present in 16 countries on four continents. The family name "Leskovec " is used by some 200 people in the United States , about 100 in Argentina , and some 60 people in Belarus.

Characteristic first names

Tomica Leskovec, Krešo Leskovec, Željko Leskovec, Damir Leskovec, Silvana Leskovec, Jasenka Leskovec, Aleksandra Leskovec, Franc Leskovec, Ivan Leskovec, Aleksandar Leskovec, Darko Leskovec, Zlata Leskovec, Ružica Leskovec, Eleonora Leskovec, Snježana Leskovec, Jasna Leskovec, Sunčica Leskovec, Rajka Leskovec, Irena Leskovec

Mentions in sources

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

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