Surname Lovrec in modern Croatia

Lovrec families are Croats and they are mostly from Cakovec area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Cakovec and Zagreb. In Preseka in Cakovec area every sixth inhabitant had the family name Lovrec.

Prevalence

About 130 people with faimily name Lovrec live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 160 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 6 cities and 15 other places, mostly in Zagreb (35), in Preseka (15), Nedelisce (15) and Gornji Mihaljevec (10) in Cakovec area, and in Cakovec (10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Lovrec is present in four countries on two continents.

Characteristic first names

Branko Lovrec, Bojan Lovrec, Nenad Lovrec, Goran Lovrec, Antun Lovrec, Zrinka Lovrec, Andrija Lovrec, Franjo Lovrec, Matija Lovrec, Nada Lovrec, Suzana Lovrec, Nadica Lovrec, Sandra Lovrec, Robert Lovrec, Zlatko Lovrec, Darko Lovrec, Željko Lovrec, Mario Lovrec, Sandi Lovrec

Mentions in sources

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

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