Surname Lorković in modern Croatia

Lorković families are Croats and they are mostly from Duga Resa area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Duga Resa area and in Karlovac. In places Kučevice and Dubravci in Duga Resa area every seventh inhabitant had the family name Lorković.

Prevalence

About 150 people with faimily name Lorković live in Croatia today, in 60 households. There were 210 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 9 cities and 12 other places, mostly in Karlovac (40), Zagreb (25), Dubravci in Duga Resa area (20), Duga Resa (15), and in Kucevice in Duga Resa area (10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Lorković (including: Lorkovic , Lorkovich and Lorkowic ) is present in 12 countries on four continents. The family name "Lorkovic " is used by some 200 people in the United States , about 60 in Australia , and some 60 people in Canada. "Lorkovich " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Nenad Lorković, Mladen Lorković, Ivan Lorković, Mijo Lorković, Ivica Lorković, Franjo Lorković, Ivo Lorković, Zoran Lorković, Željko Lorković, Hrvoje Lorković, Barka Lorković, Krunoslav Lorković, Iva Lorković, Veljko Lorković, Blaž Lorković, Biserka Lorković, Snježana Lorković, Draženka Lorković, Natalija Lorković

Mentions in sources

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

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