Surname Matočec in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Matočec families are almost entirely Croats (from Djurdjevac area ), barely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Djurdjevac. In Grkine in Djurdjevac every eighth inhabitant had the family name Matočec.

Prevalence

About 50 people with faimily name Matočec live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 50 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties, four cities and 6 other places, mostly in Podravske Sesvete in Djurdjevac area (20), Zagreb (15), Djurdjevac (10), Kriznica in Djurdjevac area (<10), and in Koprivnica (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Matočec is present in this form only in Croatia.

Characteristic first names

Marijan Matočec, Vlatko Matočec, Martina Matočec, Ivan Matočec, Jadranka Matočec, Nada Matočec, Miroslav Matočec, Mara Matočec, Željka Matočec, Zoran Matočec, Nevenka Matočec, Neven Matočec, Ignac Matočec, Vlastica Matočec, Branimir Matočec, Zvonko Matočec, Josip Matočec, Vladimir Matočec, Danijela Matočec

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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