Surname Pecek in modern Croatia

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

Prevalence

About 100 people with faimily name Pecek live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 140 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 9 cities and 19 other places, mostly in Pitomaca in Djurdjevac area (25), Bjelovar (15), Zagreb (10), Koska in Nasice area (<10), and in Djakovo (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Pecek (including: Pechek , Pecechea , Pezek , Petzek , Pecec , Pecheck and Petzeck ) is present in 24 countries worldwide. The family name "Pecek " is used by some 800 people in Czech Republic , about 300 in Slovakia , and some 200 people in the United States. "Pezek " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Pechek " is used by some 100 people in the United States , about 100 in Czech Republic , and some 70 people in Brazil.

Characteristic first names

Željko Pecek, Drago Pecek, Valentina Pecek, Snježana Pecek, Đurđica Pecek, Marija Pecek, Zoran Pecek, Vladimir Pecek, Domagoj Pecek, Boris Pecek, Danijel Pecek, Lorena Pecek, Mirjana Pecek, Jadranka Pecek, Roberto Pecek, Darko Pecek, Kristijan Pecek, Davor Pecek, Ljubomir Pecek

Mentions in sources

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

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