Surname Mađarević in modern Croatia

Mađarević families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Slatina area , rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Vukovar and in Slatina area.

Prevalence

About 330 people with faimily name Mađarević live in Croatia today, in 160 households. There were 470 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 25 cities and 39 other places, mostly in Zagreb (35), Vukovar (30), Djakovo (25), Noskovci in Slatina area (25), and in Osijek (20).

Outside Croatia

At least five families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (3), Australia (1), and to the United States (1).
Family name Mađarević (including: Madarevic , Madjarevic and Magjarevic ) is present in 9 countries on four continents.

Characteristic first names

Vjekoslav Mađarević, Neda Mađarević, Branko Mađarević, Sanja Mađarević, Danijel Mađarević, Ivica Mađarević, Jakob Mađarević, Ljubica Mađarević, Snježana Mađarević, Ankica Mađarević, Josip Mađarević, Darko Mađarević, Goran Mađarević, Srđan Mađarević, Branimir Mađarević, Marija Mađarević, Evica Mađarević, Maja Mađarević, Arijana Mađarević

Mentions in sources

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

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