Surname Oreb.

  • Surname Oreb in modern Croatia

    Oreb families are Croats and they are mostly from the Island of Korcula. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born on the Island of Korcula and in Split. In Vela Luka on the Island of Korcula every twentieth inhabitant had the family name Oreb.

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  • Prevalence

    About 330 people with faimily name Oreb live in Croatia today, in 160 households. There were 280 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent.
    They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 13 cities and 13 other places, mostly in Vela Luka (210) and Blato (40) on the Island of Korcula, Split (35), Zagreb (30), and in Dubrovnik (<10).

  • Outside Croatia


    Family name Oreb is present in 19 countries worldwide.

  • Characteristic first names

    Goran Oreb, Franko Oreb, Gloria Oreb, Ivan Oreb, Domagoj Oreb, Izvor Oreb, Srđan Oreb, Nikola Oreb, Miranda Oreb, Milan Oreb, Branko Oreb, Tanja Oreb, Marijana Oreb, Edita Oreb, Marinko Oreb, Renata Oreb, Siniša Oreb, Danijela Oreb, Tonko Oreb

  • Last name Oreb around the globe

    See the countries where surname Oreb is common, frequency and prevalence at mondonomo.ai

  • Mentions in sources

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

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