Surname Oštrec in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Oštrec families are Croats (from Cazma area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Cazma area.

Prevalence

About 50 people with faimily name Oštrec live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 70 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are located in threee Croatian counties, four cities and 13 other places, mostly in Zagreb (15), Velika Hrastilnica in Ivanic-Grad area (<10), Poljana (<10), Kutina (<5), and in Novoselec in Ivanic-Grad area (<5).

Outside Croatia

At least three families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to France (2) and the United States (1).
Family name Oštrec is present in three countries on two continents.

Characteristic first names

Ljerka Oštrec, Branka Oštrec, Ivica Oštrec, Kristijan Oštrec, Zlatko Oštrec, Dijana Oštrec, Nevenka Oštrec, Dario Oštrec, Ružica Oštrec, Maja Oštrec, Mijo Oštrec, Mirela Oštrec, Mladen Oštrec, Ivana Oštrec, Marijo Oštrec, Suzana Oštrec, Dragutin Oštrec, Zdenko Oštrec, Nikola Oštrec

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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