Surname Pavec in modern Croatia

Pavec families are Croats and they are mostly from Djurdjevac. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Bjelovar.

Prevalence

About 80 people with faimily name Pavec live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 130 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties, four cities and 12 other places, mostly in Zagreb (25), Bestovje in Samobor area (10), Djurdjevac (<10), Severovci (<10), and in Bjelovar (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Pavec (including: Pavez , Pavezzi and Pawez ) is present in 31 countries worldwide.

Characteristic first names

Maja Pavec, Branko Pavec, Željko Pavec, Damir Pavec, Dalibor Pavec, Jasna Pavec, Dario Pavec, Marijan Pavec, Mladen Pavec, Nada Pavec, Kristijan Pavec, Danica Pavec, Ivica Pavec, Mirela Pavec, Goran Pavec, Ivan Pavec, Zvonko Pavec, Hrvoje Pavec, Sonja Pavec

Mentions in sources

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

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