Surname Pavlec in modern Croatia

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

Prevalence

About 20 people with faimily name Pavlec live in Croatia today, in 8 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent.
They are located in only four naselja i to in Zagreb (<10), Varazdin (<10), Hrvatski Leskovac (<5), and in Ljubescica in Varazdin area (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Pavlec (including: Pavlech , Pawlech and Pavlez ) is present in 8 countries on two continents. "Pavlech " is used by small number of people in Slovakia , small number in Czech Republic , and small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Čedomir Pavlec, Dubravka Pavlec, Romana Pavlec, Nedeljko Pavlec, Oto Pavlec, Dubravko Pavlec, Tomislav Pavlec, Josip Pavlec, Mara Pavlec, Mirjana Pavlec, Emilija Pavlec, Štefica Pavlec, Ivica Pavlec, Bosiljka Pavlec, Damir Pavlec, Nikola Pavlec, Hinko Pavlec, Filip Pavlec, Dora Pavlec

Mentions in sources

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

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