Surname Mihaljec in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Mihaljec families are almost entirely Croats (from Beli Manastir area ), very rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Beli Manastir area and in Mursko Sredisce area.

Prevalence

About 20 people with faimily name Mihaljec live in Croatia today, in 10 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in threee Croatian counties, four cities and two other places, mostly in Kozarac (15) and Ceminac (<10) in Beli Manastir area, Zagreb (<5), Osijek (<5), and in Karlovac (<5).

Outside Croatia

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

Characteristic first names

Ivana Mihaljec, Boris Mihaljec, Ana Mihaljec, Danijela Mihaljec, Zdenka Mihaljec, Božana Mihaljec, Dara Mihaljec, Marija Mihaljec, Nikola Mihaljec, Petar Mihaljec, Josip Mihaljec, Stjepan Mihaljec, Zdravko Mihaljec, Ivan Mihaljec, Gordon Mihaljec, Melita Mihaljec, Slava Mihaljec, Đuro Mihaljec, Milica Mihaljec

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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