Surname Oreč.

  • Surname Oreč in modern Croatia

    Oreč families are Croats and they are mostly from Bosnian Posavina. According to some sources they are from Posusje in Herzegovina. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Bosanian Posavina (Derventa area) and in Slavonski Brod.

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  • Prevalence

    About 520 people with faimily name Oreč live in Croatia today, in 190 households. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied.
    They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 32 cities and 37 other places, mostly in Slavonski Brod (145), Zagreb (115), Podstrana in Solin area (30), Podvinje (25), and in Sesvete (25).

  • Outside Croatia


    Family name Oreč (including: Oreck , Orech , Horeck and Orec ) is present in 15 countries worldwide. "Orech " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Oreck " is used by some 200 people in the United States and small number in Canada. "Horeck " is used by small number of people in the United States and small number in Canada.

  • Characteristic first names

    Kristina Oreč, Branka Oreč, Marko Oreč, Anita Oreč, Hrvoje Oreč, Darko Oreč, Tihomir Oreč, Josip Oreč, Miroslav Oreč, Štefica Oreč, Boro Oreč, Ivan Oreč, Mihalj Oreč, Lidija Oreč, Zvonimir Oreč, Stipo Oreč, Željko Oreč, Davor Oreč, Petar Oreč

  • Last name Oreč around the globe

    See the countries where surname Oreč 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 five times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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