Surname Novoselec in modern Croatia

Novoselec families are Croats and they are mostly from Varazdin area. According to some sources they are from Novog Marofa. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Varazdin and Zagreb.

Prevalence

About 800 people with faimily name Novoselec live in Croatia today, in 340 households. There were 800 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 37 cities and 104 other places, mostly in Zagreb (105), Varazdin (90), Sracinec in Varazdin area (55), Kupljenovo (35), and in Cresnjevo in Varazdin area (35).

Outside Croatia

At least seven families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (2), Austria (2), Australia (1), the United States (1), and to Switzerland (1).
Family name Novoselec is present in 8 countries on two continents. The family name "Novoselec " is used by small number of people in Switzerland , small number in Austria , and small number in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Petar Novoselec, Krunoslav Novoselec, Vjeran Novoselec, Dinko Novoselec, Sindi Novoselec, Ivana Novoselec, Gordan Novoselec, Pavao Novoselec, Miroslava Novoselec, Evica Novoselec, Božica Novoselec, Saša Novoselec, Alen Novoselec, Branko Novoselec, Nikola Novoselec, Josip Novoselec, Božidar Novoselec, Vladimir Novoselec, Kristijan Novoselec

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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