Surname Mrinjek in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Mrinjek families are Croats (from Vrbovec area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Vrbovec area and in Zagreb. In Mali Brezovec in Vrbovec area every fifth inhabitant had the family name Mrinjek.

Prevalence

About 30 people with faimily name Mrinjek live in Croatia today, in 13 households. There were 40 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are located in threee Croatian counties, threee cities and 5 other places, mostly in Zagreb (10), Gradecki Pavlovec in Vrbovec area (<10), Vrbovec (<5), Gradec in Vrbovec area (<5), and in Gostovic (<5).

Outside Croatia

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

Characteristic first names

Ervin Mrinjek, Igor Mrinjek, Ljiljana Mrinjek, Vesna Mrinjek, Stjepan Mrinjek, Nevenka Mrinjek, Nada Mrinjek, Mira Mrinjek, Jadranka Mrinjek, Ivan Mrinjek, Mijo Mrinjek, Ivica Mrinjek, Brankica Mrinjek, Snježana Mrinjek, Mihael Mrinjek, Petra Mrinjek, Monika Mrinjek, Ivanka Mrinjek, Josip Mrinjek

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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